The Associated Press reported from Rome on March 19 that “a visiting Chinese Red Cross team criticised Italians’ failure to properly quarantine themselves and take the national lockdown seriously.”
On March 12, Lijian Zhao, the official spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, tweeted that Covid-19 virus originated in the US. Zhao’s allegation was obviously preposterous, because if the US had indeed done any such thing, it would have first taken steps to ensure the protection of its own population, knowing very well that the virus would inevitably spill over into its territory. It would not have found itself in the sorry state it is in today. Read More…
