WHO: Has not received evidence from Washington about its speculation about Wuhan
The WHO has confirmed it has not received evidence from Washington about its speculation about Wuhan laboratory.
This follows the risk-off news that US officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show:
The markets have been in risk-off mode since the news. While equity markets in Japan and China were closed at the time, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed down 4.2%, India’s Sensex fell 5,.9%, and South Korea’s Kospi lost 2.7%.
European equities were down across the board by midday and US equity futures pointed to a down market open – the S&P 500 is struggling to stay above water, -0.4% a the time of writing.
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