“There is enormous evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan. The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” Pompeo told ABC’s “This Week,” referring to the coronavirus that was first identified in China and has killed about 240,000 people worldwide.

However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a report released on Thursday that it agreed with the wide scientific consensus that the disease was not man-made.

At the same time, Pompeo continued to blame the Chinese administration with his tweets that he posted late Sunday.

“The Chinese Communist Party continues to block access to the Western world, the world's best scientists, refusing to cooperate with world health experts, to figure out exactly what happened. This unacceptable during an ongoing threat, an ongoing pandemic, “ Pompeo said, claiming that China has a history of infecting the world and they have a history of running substandard laboratories.

“These are not the first times that we’ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab,” he added.

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