Now China bizarrely claims Covid pandemic started in the US in desperate bid to shift blame from Wuhan ‘lab leak'
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WU JOKING? Now China bizarrely claims Covid pandemic started in the US in desperate bid to shift blame from Wuhan 'lab leak'
CHINA has brazenly claimed the Covid pandemic may have started in the US in a desperate bid to bat away growing scrutiny over a lab leak.
The extraordinary accusation was made in a new White Paper released by Beijing's State Council Information Office.
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China has claimed the Covid pandemic may have started in the US and not in a Wuhan lab
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The report accused the US - at the time under Joe Biden's administration - of 'indifference and delayed actions' during the fight against the virus
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Ex-top health chief Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House in 2020
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It comes after The Sun's explosive Covid lab leak documentary laid bare the mounting evidence and disturbing questions surrounding the virus's emergence in Wuhan — home to China's most secretive bio-research facility.
And just days ago, the US launched a bombshell new Covid origins website blaming a Chinese lab for unleashing the killer virus.
Now, in a fresh propaganda push, Beijing insists 'substantial evidence' shows Covid 'might have emerged in the United States earlier than its officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in China.'
The document, titled Covid-19 Prevention, Control and Origins Tracing: China's Actions and Stance, was released via China's official Xinhua news agency.
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It accused the US of "indifference and delayed actions" during the global Covid fight, and of scapegoating China to deflect from its own "mismanaged" response.
'The US has made China the primary scapegoat for its own mismanaged COVID-19 response,' it fumed.
The report added that America was 'spreading misinformation' and had wasted 'precious time China had secured for the global fight against the pandemic.'
It also revived Beijing's long-standing claims that it shared virus information with the world in a "timely manner" — while pointing to a Missouri lawsuit blaming China for a cover-up and hoarding of protective equipment.
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The paper added: 'The US should not continue to 'pretend to be deaf and dumb', but should respond to the legitimate concerns of the international community.'
I was in Oval Office with Trump at start of pandemic - no one was closer to Chinese officials than me & I believe Covid was engineered in lab
Beijing's move comes after the White house on April 18 launched a new Covid-19 site which directly states the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab.
It also slams former President Joe Biden, ex-top health chief Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organisation for mishandling the crisis.
The CIA has recently changed its own stance - concluding in January that the pandemic was more likely to have come from a lab leak in China than natural origins.
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However, it admitted this was based on "low confidence" and both scenarios remain "plausible".
The World Health Organisation has said the virus has claimed more than seven million lives since emerging in late 2019 in Wuhan - where the first known cases were recorded.
It declared the outbreak a pandemic in March 2020 and officially ended the public health emergency status in May last year.
Last December, a bombshell Congress report concluded Covid most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
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Shi Zhengli - dubbed 'Batwoman' for her work on bat coronaviruses - pictured at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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In the early days of the pandemic, Shi sequenced the virus and a critical role in the story of Covid
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The 520-page report also revealed that the Department of Justice secretly investigated a New York-based company for clues about the origins of Covid - and potential criminal conduct.
Following a two-year investigation involving dozens of interviews and high-profile hearings, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report.
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It said: "Four years after the onset of the worst pandemic in 100 years, the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis.
"By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced."
The report noted that Wuhan Institute of Virology was China's top coronavirus research lab and it had "a history of conducting research at inadequate biosafety levels".
It added that researchers at the lab "were sick with a Covid-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before Covid-19 was discovered at the wet market".
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The report accused the Chinese government, agencies in the US government and even members of the scientific community of a "cover up".
It also implicates a US organisation that worked with the Wuhan lab using taxpayer cash.
The Department of Justice launched a grand jury investigation - a probe into potential criminal conduct - into EcoHealth Alliance, the report reveals.
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