Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has incensed Beijing by requiring a worldwide investigation into the coronavirus episode, said he had no proof to recommend the sickness started in a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was certain the coronavirus may have started in a Chinese virology lab, however, he declined to depict the proof he said he had seen.
Morrison said on Friday that Australia had no data to help that hypothesis, and said the disarray upheld his push for a request to see how the episode began and afterward spread quickly around the globe.
"What we have before us doesn't recommend that that is the feasible source," Morrison told a news meeting in Canberra when gotten some information about Trump's remarks.
"There's nothing we have that would demonstrate that was the presumable source, however you can't preclude anything in these situations," he said.
"We realize it began in China, we realize it began in Wuhan, the most probable situation that has been solicited identifies with untamed life wet markets, however, that is an issue that would need to be altogether evaluated."
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), situated in the city where the malady was first distinguished, has dismissed recommendations the coronavirus originated from its research center.
Most researchers currently state the infection began in untamed life, with bats and pangolins recognized as conceivable host species.
Relations among Australia and China have been stressed since the administration started peddling support in mid-April for a universal investigation into the flare-up.
Beijing sees the request call as a major aspect of U.S.- drove purposeful publicity against China, while Morrison says the world needs to see precisely what happened to forestall a rehash of a flare-up that has so far slaughtered more than 200,000 individuals and shut down a significant part of the worldwide economy.
"That is the reason it is simply so imperative to comprehend what occurred, to ensure that we can forestall such a broad-based worldwide calamity from happening once more," Morrison said.
Beijing's envoy to Australia said that Chinese customers could blacklist Australian meat, wine, the travel industry and colleges in light of the push for a request, remarks individuals from Morrison's administration have called "dangers of financial compulsion."
AUSTRALIA MAY EASE RESTRICTIONS
Australia has effectively contained the episode up until now, yet quantifies actualized to do that is set to see joblessness flood, the economy sinks into a downturn without precedent for three decades, and government obligation increments hugely.
The Australian government said on Friday it would meet next Friday, seven days in front of the timetable, to conclude whether to ease social separating limitations, as the quantities of new contaminations diminish and tension builds for business and schools to revive.
Australia has revealed around 6,700 instances of the new coronavirus and 93 passings, well beneath the levels announced in the United States and Europe. Development in new contaminations has eased back to under 0.5% per day, contrasted with 25% per month prior.
Morrison said it was basic to lift social separating limitations as right on time as conceivable as 1.5 million individuals were currently on joblessness benefits and the administration figure the joblessness rate to top 10% inside months.
"We have to restart our economy, we have to restart our general public. We can't hold Australia under the doona," Morrison stated, utilizing an Australian word for the quilt.
Morrison's legislature has vowed to spend over 10% of GDP to support the economy however the national bank despite everything cautions the nation is setting out toward its most exceedingly terrible compression since the 1930s.
With under 20 new coronavirus cases found every day, Morrison said state and domain officials would meet on May 8 to decide if to lift limitations.
"Australians merit an early imprint for the work that they have done," he told journalists.
Australia qualities its accomplishment in easing back the spread of COVID-19 to social removing limitations forced in March, including the constrained terminations of bars, cafés, and restricting the size of indoor and outside get-togethers.
Morrison said 3.5 million individuals had downloaded an application on their cell phones intended to assist doctors with following individuals possibly presented to the infection, however, the legislature is seeking after about 40% of the nation's 25.7 million populace to join to guarantee it is successful.
Bureau will likewise choose one week from now how to restart sport the nation over, the head administrator said.
The administration says any resumption of the game ought not to bargain the general wellbeing, and suggests a stunning beginning start with little gatherings that play a non-physical game outside.