Brazil's Bolsonaro links pandemic to 'germ warfare'

Brasilia (AFP) May 5, 2021

President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday the novel coronavirus may have been made in a laboratory to wage "biological warfare," in the latest comments likely to strain Brazil's relations with China. "It's a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn't have," said the far-right leader. "But the military knows all about chemic