China claimed the coronavirus broke out in different parts of the world last year.
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China claimed on Friday that the coronavirus broke out in various parts of the world last year, but it was the only one to report and act first, refuting the widely held view that the deadly contagion originated in Wuhan. before it turns out to be a pandemic.
China, in addition to denying US claims that COVID-19 emerged from a bio-lab in Wuhan, has also dismissed the fact that it emanated from a wet market in central China’s city of bald people. -mice or pangolins before infecting humans.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a press briefing that “coronavirus is a new type of virus as more and more facts emerge as reports reveal, we know all that the epidemic broke out in various places around the world at the end of last year., while China was the first to report the epidemic, identified the pathogen and shared the genome sequence with the world. “
Hua’s comments came in response to allegations by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about a cover-up by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The coronavirus crisis has been infinitely worsened by the cover-up from the Communist Party of China, Pompeo said in Tokyo at the QUAD ministerial meeting of the United States, India, Australia and Japan on Tuesday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s statement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) prepared to probe the origin of the deadly coronavirus.
According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the contagion has infected more than 36 million people and killed more than a million across the world.
The United States is the most affected country with more than 7.6 million cases and more than 2.12,000 deaths.
China has reported 90,736 cases and 4,739 deaths from COVID-19.
The WHO has handed Beijing a list of global experts to send to China to probe the origin of the coronavirus, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Thursday. WHO is awaiting its approval.
In May, the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the Geneva-based WHO currently led by India, passed a unanimous resolution to probe the origin of the virus. China also supported the resolution.
