The coronavirus originally was dubbed the “Wuhan coronavirus” because it was believed to have orginated in the northeastern Chinese city.
China now denies ‘Wuhan Coronavirus’ Came from Communist Nation
Regime backtracks, stokes rumor pandemic originated in U.S.
By WND Staff | March 11, 2020 at 4:11pm
Source: World Net Daily (WND)
Wuhan, China (Pixabay)
The coronavirus originally was dubbed the “Wuhan coronavirus” because it was believed to have orginated in the northeastern Chinese city.
Communist Chinese authorities acknowledged that origin, but now, with the outbreak regarded as a global pandemic, they are reversing course.
Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said “some in the media say this coronavirus is a China virus.”
“This is extremely irresponsible and we firmly oppose that. We are still tracing the origin of the virus and there is no conclusion yet,” he said.
He acknowledged that the COVID-19 virus “first appeared in China,” but insisted that “doesn’t mean its origin is in China.”
A top Trump adviser charged the Chinese Communist Party’s initial efforts to cover-up and minimize the outbreak may have contributed to its global spread, the Washington Examiner reported.
“This outbreak in Wuhan was covered up. It probably cost the world community two months [during which officials could have been working to contain it],” said National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.
“If we’d had those [two months] and been able to sequence the virus, and had the cooperation necessary from the Chinese, had a WHO team been on the ground, had a CDC team, which we’d offered, been on the ground, I think we could have dramatically curtailed what happened both in China and what’s now happening across the world,” O’Brien said.
The The Daily Signal noted Chinese President Xi Jinping acknowledged “the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan.”
And the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission confirmed its work on the “many … pneumonia cases.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters this week “the Wuhan virus that began at the end of last year is something that this administration is taking incredibly seriously.” Continue here.
