Michael Gove appears to blame China over lack of UK coronavirus testing

Minister says China was ‘not clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness’ of virus

Michael Gove has appeared to lay the blame for the UK’s lack of mass testing on China, raising the prospect of increased diplomatic tension between the two countries.

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