The Chinese diplomat said that the armed forces of the United States was initially able to deliver new coronavirus in China.
Speaking before more than 300 thousand followers on Twitter, the official representative of the foreign Ministry of China Zhao Lijiang has posted a video of Robert Redfield, Director of the US Centers for control and prevention (CDC), speaking before a congressional Committee on March 11.
According to Redfield, some cases of death from flu in the United States was later identified as cases Covid-19. Zhao Lijiang pointed to it as evidence of the growing conspiracy theory that the coronavirus has not arisen in Hubei province in Central China.
«CDC caught red-handed. When the United States was patient zero? How many people infected? Perhaps the US army brought the epidemic in Wuhan. Be transparent! Publish your data! USA owes us an explanation!», the official said the foreign Ministry.
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 the 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
Hundreds of athletes from the U.S. army was in Wuhan at the World military games in October 2019.
On Friday the representative of the press service of the foreign Ministry Zhao Geng Shuang said that in the international community there are different opinions about the origin of the virus, avoiding to answer the question of whether Zhao Lijiang official position of the Chinese government.
On 27 February, a famous Chinese expert on infectious diseases Zhong Nanshan also wondered where the coronavirus.
«For the first time the infection was discovered in China, but the virus may not have originated in China,» said Zhong at the press conference.
Geng Shuang said on Thursday that the origin of the virus can only be determined by «science».
«As COVID-19 escalated into a pandemic, the world must come together to fight him, not to press charges against each other that is not constructive», — he said.
