Beijing on Thursday criticised a preliminary study by US researchers suggesting the coronavirus may have been circulating in China since August ...
The virus first emerged late last year in the central city of Wuhan, but the US has repeatedly accused China of a lack of transparency about the outbreak and its origins. BEIJING: Beijing on Thursday criticised a preliminary study by US researchers suggesting the coronavirus may have been circulating in China since August 2019, calling it proof of a disinformation campaign.
The authors said that while they could not definitively confirm that the data they documented was linked to the virus, it supported conclusions reached by other research suggesting that the virus began circulating earlier than the first reported cases at the end of 2019.But China's foreign ministry criticised the paper as"full of holes" and"crudely manufactured."
"Some US politicians and media acted like they found buried treasure and wantonly spread , treating it like new proof that China concealed the epidemic," Hua told reporters at a regular briefing.According to China's official chronology of the pandemic, the first cases of COVID-19 were spotted by doctors in Wuhan in December and they shared the genome sequence with the World Health Organization in early January.
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