{"id":142876,"date":"2020-05-05T03:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T01:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/coronavirus-live-news-who-and-five-eyes-reject-chinese-lab-theory-as-global-deaths-pass-250000\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T03:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T01:44:02","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-who-and-five-eyes-reject-chinese-lab-theory-as-global-deaths-pass-250000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142876","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: WHO and Five Eyes reject Chinese lab theory as global deaths pass 250,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand records no new cases for second straight day; Italy\u2019s death toll higher than reported; leaders pledge $8bn to fight virus. Follow the latest updatesFive Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from labGerman cases \u2018may be 10 times higher than official figures\u2019Australia coronavirus updates &#8211; liveSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.44am BST Dr. Anthony Fauci, the foremost US expert on infections diseases and a key member of Donald Trump\u2019s coronavirus task force, has said that there is no scientific basis for the theory that coronavirus was man-made in a Chinese laboratory, or escaped from a laboratory after being brought in from the wild. Dr. Fauci told National Geographic, in an interview just published: If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what\u2019s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated \u2026 Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species 2.28am BST The Guardian\u2019s Charlotte Graham-McLay reports: More from New Zealand now: the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has talked up the relationship between Australia and her country after joining Australia\u2019s national cabinet meeting by secure call this morning. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/05\/coronavirus-live-news-who-and-five-eyes-reject-chinese-lab-theory-as-global-deaths-pass-250000\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus live news: WHO and Five Eyes reject Chinese lab theory as global deaths pass 250,000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand records no new cases for second straight day; Italy\u2019s death toll higher than reported; leaders pledge $8bn to fight virus. Follow the latest updatesFive Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from labGerman cases \u2018may be 10 times higher than official figures\u2019Australia coronavirus updates &#8211; liveSee all our coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}