China is nowadays seen making new claims. The country on Friday asserted that the coronavirus burst out in the various parts of the world last year but it was the only nation to have reported and acted first, exposing the widely-held view that the deadly contagion originated in Wuhan before turning out to be a worldwide epidemic. China, besides rejecting the allegations posed by the US that COVID-19 has developed from a bio-lab in Wuhan, also rejected that it originated from a wet market in the central Chinese city from bats or pangolins before infecting humans.
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In the case, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying declared at a media briefing that "the coronavirus is a new kind of virus as more and more facts emerge as reports reveal, we all know that the epidemic broke out in various places in the world at the end of last year, while China was the first to report the outbreak, identified the pathogen and shared the genome sequence with the world". Hua's comments came in answer to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's accusations of a cover-up by the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).
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The coronavirus crisis was infinitely made worse by the Chinese Communist Party's cover-up, Pompeo had said in Tokyo at the QUAD ministerial meeting of the US, India, Australia and Japan on Tuesday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry statement was made as the World Health Organisation (WHO) was gearing up to probe the origin of the deadly coronavirus. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the contagion has infected over 36 million people and killed more than 1 million across the world.
