BEIJING: China has held the United States responsible for the outbreak of the on-going coronavirus epidemic.
According to the Chinese government, it was possible that the US military brought the coronavirus to the Chinese army to Wuhan.
A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, Zhao Lijian, tweeted yesterday that “it might be the US army” that brought the coronavirus to China, giving an official boost to a conspiracy theory that had been allowed to circulate on Chinese social media for weeks.
The conspiracy declares that 300 athletes from the US military who in October attended the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, were infected with the virus, thereby spreading it in China.
Lijian also shared a video of the US Senate’s “Subcommittee on Infectious and Infectious Diseases” in a series of tweets, claiming that the video proves the Coronavirus was first used in the United States.
The coronavirus outbreak continues to cause jitters with cases surging close to 120,000 and deaths nearing 4,300 worldwide as of Wednesday.
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