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IN A growing number of studies show that the coronavirus pandemic is caused by outbreaks in various parts of the world, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in an interview with Xinhua and Central China Television, the FOCUS news agency reported.
“When China was attacked by an unknown coronavirus, it immediately took steps to conduct an epidemiological investigation, identify the pathogen, and publish key information, including the sequencing of the virus genome,” the diplomat said. He also recalled that
China is the first country to report coronavirus cases.
“We were at the forefront of the fight against misinformation, attempts at politicization and stigmatization. “We were determined to ensure that the objective narrative and collective memory of the fight against the pandemic were not distorted by lies,” he said.
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities informed WHO of an unknown pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province. The cause of the disease is a new coronavirus called SARS CoV2. Already on March 11, the WHO declared the outbreak of coronavirus infection a pandemic.
In total, according to the organization,
there are almost 82 million infected people in the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University, there are already 84 million cases of the disease in the world. Most infections are in the United States, India, and Brazil. Russia is in fourth place, followed by France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Germany and Colombia.
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