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Chinese media has named a man who bought fish at a massive seafood market as the ‘patient zero’ of a new coronavirus outbreak currently ravaging Beijing. Tang, 52, was the first person to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in the new waves of cases in the Chinese capital city. He told a reporter from his sickbed … Read more
A Chinese newspaper has slammed America’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and compared the US to ‘a primitive society’ in a recent opinion article. Beijing’s state media Global Times claimed that the US is ‘no match for China in terms of anti-epidemic organization and mobilization’ in a column published on Sunday. The startling comment was … Read more
A Chinese state media presenter has claimed that the coronavirus originated from the US instead of China in an Arabic programme. The anchor, who calls herself ‘Ms V’, referred to several conspiracy theories in an opinion show on CGTN to prove ‘it is clear that the virus in China was transmitted from abroad’. The Arabic-speaking … Read more
A Chinese medical expert has suggested that the US may have obtained a specimen of the novel coronavirus before China did, raising the possibility that Washington had known about the disease before Beijing. Dr Chen Xuyan from Beijing claimed that the first possible vaccine had entered clinical trials in America ‘way too quickly’. She made … Read more
China has lashed out at a Nobel Prize winner after he blamed the coronavirus pandemic on Beijing’s political system. Mario Vargas Llosa, who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, claimed that the coronavirus would not have spread around the world had China been a free and democratic country, not a dictatorship. The Peruvian author’s … Read more