China revives conspiracy theory of US army link to Covid

Suspicions about army lab spread on social media after official ’s tit-for-tat response to US claimCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAttempts by Chinese authorities to shift the narrative around Covid-19 ’s origins have reignited on social media this week after a government spokesperson revived aconspiracy theory that it came from a US army lab.Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for the foreign affairs ministry, was responding to a US state department “fact sheet” released last week that claimed there was new evidence of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology falling ill before the first known cases of Covid-19 in the city. The state department did not provide data to back upits assertions.Continue reading...
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