Here, in Central Asia (hence my name), we have growing concern with poor handling of the situation by WHO. For example, the WHO inspector for Tajikistan kept saying that everything is all right down there, for the whole month of April, but every other country in the region knew they have cases, and suddenly, it turned out the have indeed. They also are engaging in covering up the situation in Turkmenistan. Although they have cases down there, the inspector says that there is no at all.

This lab story is given way too much attention and this is so because it is a convenient story to spin for many governments, Trump's first and foremost but not only.

All the credible experts say that this virus is natural and that it may have jumped to humans years ago, and also that people in the relevant rural areas of China have antibodies for similar virii. And then there's also SARS, MERS, Ebola, etc.

There is a reason experts have been raising the alert for years about this: what has happened was inevitable.

But of course laying the blame at the feet of an "hostile" government can buy you political mileage, not least during an election year or when you're coming under criticism.