China’s Foreign Ministry has made a statement suggesting that the U.S. Army might be responsible for the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the disease first emerged.
Speaking via a tweet on Thursday, foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, wrote:
“When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals?”
Zhao went on to allege that it “might be [the] US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.”
“Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation,” he wrote.
2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation! pic.twitter.com/vYNZRFPWo3
— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 12, 2020
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Also speaking earlier, China’s ambassador to South Africa had said that: “Although the epidemic first broke out in China, it did not necessarily mean that the virus originated from China, let alone ‘made in China,” he tweeted.
