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Trump administration continues to blame China for coronavirus spread
President Trump says the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
As the Trump administration turns its fire on china and a key laboratory in Wuhan for the spread of the coronavirus, we hear more about the lab's director.
Also: How the mafia are hurting and benefitting from the pandemic. And we hear from the scientists who've discovered a microbe which can stop malaria in its tracks.
(Photo: An electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2-also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19-isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: IMAGE POINT FR - LPN/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Mon 4 May 202020:06GMT
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