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By Patrick Goodenough | January 19, 2021 | 4:16am EST
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing in 2018. (Photo by Andy Wong/AFP/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Chinese state and its media outlets directed a barrage of invective at outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday. A foreign ministry spokeswoman described Pompeo s calls for international experts probing the origin of the coronavirus outbreak to examine any possible role played by a Wuhan lab as the “last-day madness of Mr. Liar.”
Pompeo said on Friday the U.S. government “has reason to believe” that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) fell ill in the fall of 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.” He said the team investigating the outbreak origin should look into that, and also into research work carried out at the WIV on bat coronaviruses including one that