WASHINGTON, 16 APR – RIA Novosti. U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo demanded from China is transparency in the question of the origin of the pandemic coronavirus.
“Their leaders knew about the virus before said this to the General public. This is dangerous: a lot of cases, many of the movements and trips around the world before the Communist party of China has clearly stated about what happened there,” she added.
He refused to confirm or deny publication of the American media that the virus could escape from lab in Wuhan. “This laboratory contained the highly contagious materials. We knew this, we knew that they were working on such a program, many countries have such programmes,” said Pompeo.
In his words, “transparent” of the country control the situation in such places, share information with other countries and allow foreign observers.
the American channel Fox News, citing sources, said earlier that the first patient with COVID-19 worked in the laboratory of the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. One of the sources of the channel has accused China of “most expensive operation for concealing evidence” in history. It is argued that the laboratory had not developed biological weapons and had to show outstanding results in the research of virus of Chinese scientists.
Earlier, the Chinese foreign Ministry said that China from the beginning followed an open and responsible position regarding the publication of data about the epidemic coronavirus infection.
the Chinese Authorities on 31 December 2019 has informed who of an outbreak of an unknown pneumonia in Wuhan in the Central part of the country (Hubei province). Experts have established that the causative agent is a new coronavirus, and later the disease was officially called COVID-19.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 1.9 million cases of infection, over 123 thousand people died.
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