“We raced against time and were the first country to report cases to the world,” Wang said in an interview with Chinese media published on Friday. He argued that, contrary to prevailing opinion, China’s own outbreak of the disease was not exclusively to blame for the global pandemic.
More and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world
The first cluster of Covid-19 cases was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31, 2019; and over the next year the highly contagious virus spread to the rest of the world, resulting in 84.1 million confirmed cases and more than 1.83 million deaths so far.
Despite the fact that the precise origins of the coronavirus remain unclear, the outgoing President Donald Trump administration has been blaming the pandemic on China. Accusations leveled against Beijing have ranged from a cover-up of the initial outbreak to claims that the virus was human-made and somehow leaked from a Chinese laboratory.
Trump has repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus,” insisting that Beijing should be held accountable for it.
“We are on the front line of the struggle for public opinion,” Wang said, adding that China strongly opposes “the politicization of the pandemic.”
“We were determined to make sure that the objective narrative and collective memory of the battle against the pandemic would not be distorted by lies,” the minister added.
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