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The new normal: A market seller with a mask in Wuhan (archive)
Photo: HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP
So now it is said to have happened on the Indian subcontinent.
There, not in China, for example, Sars-CoV-2 probably jumped from animals to humans for the first time - at least if you follow Chinese scientists who recently made this claim in the preprint of a research paper.
"All available evidence suggests that the coronavirus did not begin in Wuhan, central China," the "People's Daily" added.
"Even if China was the first country to report cases, that does not necessarily mean that the virus originated in China," said Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, recently.
While China was still fighting the rumor at the beginning of the pandemic that the virus had escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, the country went on the offensive in the past few weeks at the latest.
A real campaign has started.
The leadership of the People's Republic is registering exactly how much international recognition the aggressively ambushed neighbor Taiwan has received for its effective fight against corona.
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