CHENNAI: In a newly released white paper on its COVID-19 pandemic response, China renewed its assertion that the virus may have originated in the United States, pushing back against recent claims from the US government that the virus emerged from a lab in China.
The white paper, published Wednesday via the state-run Xinhua news agency, comes in direct response to an April 18 announcement by the Trump administration, which launched a COVID-19 website reiterating the theory that the virus originated from a Chinese lab.
The US website, which was launched by the US President in April, had blamed that the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China, had also criticized Democratic former President , former top US health official and the for their roles in managing the pandemic..
