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German Chancellor Angela Merkel – Photo: REUTERS
“I think the more transparent China is about the origin of the virus, the more it will benefit the world because more people will learn about it,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized to the media on April 20.
Merkel also reminded people that they are not subjective and said that if the COVID-19 pandemic were a forest, Germany would only go to the top of the forest, not outside the forest.
Merkel’s comments came amid a controversy between China and the West over the origin of the new strain of coronavirus that causes acute respiratory infections (COVID-19). As of April 20, more than 2.4 million people were infected worldwide, of whom 166,000 died.
On April 19, Australian Chancellor Marise Payne called for an independent international investigation into the origin of the corona virus and Chinese treatment in the early stages of the outbreak.
Responding to this problem, at a press conference on April 20, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Canh Shang emphasized the Western accusations as “an insult to the great efforts and sacrifices of the people.” The Chinese “in preventing the spread of disease.
“We are also victims of virus attacks, not virus perpetrators or accomplices of viruses,” Canh Sang argued. “Attacking and belittling the reputation of other countries only wastes time, does not save lives,” said the representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Western United States, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are the leading countries in number of infections and deaths. China, the country that started the disease, had more than 82,000 cases, but only around 1,000 were being treated.
United States President Donald Trump fired the first shot on suspicion of Chinese figures, warning that Beijing would suffer the consequences if it deliberately allowed the disease to spread in a global pandemic. France and Britain, two American allies, also responded.
China has repeatedly denied its conspiracy theories to create a new strain of the corona virus, even a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry responded by saying that the United States Army had brought the virus to China.
On April 18, the head of the P4 Biological Laboratory at the Wuhan Virological Institute denied that conspiracy theories say the place had created the deadly virus and spread to the world.
