Wuhan lab leak is the ‘most credible’ origin of coronavirus pandemic, top US official says amid ‘whistleblower’ claims
A GOVERNMENT official says the most "credible" theory around the origin of coronavirus is that it escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Top aide to President Trump Matthew Pottinger says leaders in are "admitting" there is a chance theories suggesting started in a ";wet market" are false.
"There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus", Pottinger said in a statement.
He told leaders during the call that the incident could we have been a "leak or an accident".
"Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story," he added.
In December a journalist who bravelys deadly coronavirus outbreak was jailed for four years for "trouble making".
Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" after a brief hearing in Shanghai, according to her legal team.
The Pudong New Area Peoples Court claimed she spread false information, gave interviews to foreign media, disrupted public order and maliciously manipulated the pandemic.
Ms Zhang travelled to Wuhan to collect first hand accounts of life under lockdown and posted videos of crematoriums working at midnight that cast doubt on the official death toll.
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Damning leaked filed also to "protect" its image.
The explosive secret data, from China's own health chiefs, appeared to expose a catalogue of cover-ups and blunders which hid the true scale of the killer disease that has since killed more than 1.8 million people.