No way to say whether Covid-19 originated in China, ambassador claims

The Chinese ambassador

The Chinese ambassador to Russia has said there is no proof that Covid-19 originated in China, and that the government may have simply managed to detect the virus faster than other countries.

“Indeed, the outbreak was in China. But we can’t say that this coronavirus originated in China. We just discovered it before everyone else did, and took measures against it,” Zhang Hanhui said during a news conference on Wednesday.

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