China accused US politicians of telling lies to distract
from their own performance, shortly after US President Donald Trump renewed his
verbal attacks on China.
Worldwide the number of people confirmed to have coronavirus
has risen to more than three million, and at least 211,000 have died, according
to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Some 894,000 people have
recovered.
US President Donald Trump returned to his daily press
briefings after a few days' absence to attack China over its handling of the
coronavirus, saying his administration was conducting "serious
investigations" into what happened.
The United Nations human rights chief has warned countries flouting the rule of law in the name of fighting the pandemic risks sparking a "human rights disaster"
China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims
Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters, adding that there were still no conclusive answers as to where the disease started.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed SARS-CoV-2, now responsible for more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, was synthesised by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), based in the city where the disease was first identified.
Though the scientific consensus is that the coronavirus evolved naturally, such claims have gained traction. US President Donald Trump said on April 15 that his government was investigating whether it had originated in the Wuhan lab.
source: aljazeera.com
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