Theories that the virus came from a maximum-security lab have been brought into the mainstream by US government officials
A laboratory in the Chinese city at ground zero of the global coronavirus outbreak has rejected US theories that it spawned the pandemic, as President Donald Trump warned Beijing of consequences if it was “knowingly responsible”.
But in Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has cast doubt on the gravity of the pandemic and allowed events such as football matches to continue, defiantly visited a church without a face mask. But conspiracy theories that the virus came from a maximum-security virology lab have been brought into the mainstream by US government officials.
But as Americans and others around the world chafe after weeks under stay-at-home orders, resentment is rising. Anti-lockdown protests on Saturday drew hundreds of people in states including Texas, Maryland, New Hampshire and Ohio. Many waved American flags and some carried weapons. “We have gone for months without work,” a woman who gave her name as Alana said at a food distribution centre in Chelsea in suburban Boston.
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