CHINA has bizarrely claimed the Covid pandemic may have started in the United States in a desperate attempt to deflect growing scrutiny over a potential Wuhan lab leak.
The extraordinary accusation was made in a new White Paper released by ‘s State Council Information Office.
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, insists “substantial evidence”; shows Covid “might have emerged in the earlier than its officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in .”;
The document, titled Covid-19 Prevention, Control and Origins Tracing: China’s Actions and Stance, was released via China’s official Xinhua agency.
It accused the US of “indifference and delayed actions”; during the global Covid fight, and of scapegoating 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 lawsuit blaming China for a cover-up and hoarding of protective equipment.
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.”;
Beijing’s move comes after the 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 , ex-top chief Anthony Fauci and the for mishandling the crisis.
The – concluding in January that the pandemic was more likely to have come from a lab leak in China than natural origins.
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, abombshell Congress report concluded
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 involving dozens of and high-profile hearings, the Select Subcommittee on thereleased its finalreport.
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, 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 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”;.
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.
