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Chinese Diplomat Accuses US of Spreading Coronavirus

Joyce Huang

   Tensions between the U.S. and China may re-escalate after officials of
   both countries hurled verbal attacks at each other about the origin of
   the coronavirus, observers say.

   In his Thursday tweets, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of China's Ministry
   of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), accused the U.S. of spreading the virus to
   the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, the epicenter of China's
   coronavirus outbreak.

   The Chinese diplomat first posted a video clip in which Robert
   Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
   Prevention (CDC), told a congressional hearing Wednesday that some
   deaths from coronavirus have been discovered posthumously in the U.S.

   Zhao then tweeted, "the U.S. CDC director was caught red-handed. When
   did patient zero emerge in the U.S.? How many people had he infected?
   What's the name of the hospital?"

   An explanation

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