China’s Top Diplomat Suggests Global Outbreaks Caused Pandemic
- Wang Yi says China quickly raised ‘alarm bells’ on virus
- Comments come as China looks to overhaul Covid-19 narrative
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China’s foreign minister said outbreaks outside of the country may have caused the Covid-19 pandemic, as Beijing steps up efforts to recast the virus narrative amid growing scrutiny over the pathogen’s origins.
“More and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in comments published over the weekend from an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency and state broadcaster CCTV.