Posted on 11/21/2020 3:20:13 AM PST by USA Conservative
China is using a new study about the early, hidden spread of coronavirus in Italy to cast doubt on the firmly held assumption that the Asian nation was the birthplace of the pandemic, according to reports.
Officials in Beijing are pushing a new study that suggests the contagion may have been spreading in the European nation as early as September — three months before it was confirmed to be spreading in the long-assumed epicenter in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Times of London noted.
The Asian nation has also previously questioned Spain about the origins of the pandemic, as well as the US military, claiming it brought the virus to Wuhan in October last year during the Military World Games, the report said.
Chinese state media have now been strongly pushing the idea that the new study by the National Cancer Institute proves that the contagion likely started in Italy, not China, according to the UK paper.
“This once again shows that tracing the virus’s source is a complex scientific question that should be left to scientists,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, according to the UK Times. “[It] is a developing process that can involve multiple countries.”
The World Health Organization has admitted it is possible that the virus “silently circulated elsewhere” before it was detected in Wuhan.
However, many scientists are skeptical of the Italian study’s findings — and others note it does not rule out the coronavirus originating in China.
“We know that China delayed announcing its outbreak so there is no telling when it started there, and China has very strong commercial links with northern Italy,” Giovanni Apolone of Milan’s National Cancer Institute told the UK Times.
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...and who believes anything that the chinese communists say about anything. Also, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese working in italy.
I was not aware of the Italy/China connection until last spring when Italy was the center of the epidemic for Europe and death rates were skyrocketing. There were heavy complaints world-wide that Italy would not ban China travel nor suspend the daily flights. One day I read an article explaining the relationship.
And they are the most racist people on the planet.
China using some of Obama’s lingo pass the buck Hillary nods.
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