The US President Donald Trump's statement that he might seek compensation from China as a result of the outbreak of the new Corona epidemic (Covid-19) that appeared in Wuhan last December, before sweeping the world, led to an angry response from Beijing, which accused American politicians "uttering lies."
Beijing and Washington have repeatedly been involved in a controversy over the virus, with tensions rising between the world's two largest economic powers, and Trump said yesterday during his daily press conference: “We are upset with China, we are not satisfied with the whole situation, because we believe it was "It is possible to stop the virus at its source."
He added, "It could have been quickly prevented, and it would not have spread throughout the whole year," noting that "there are several options for holding China accountable."
A Trump journalist asked about an article published by a German newspaper, which demanded that China pay 165 billion dollars to Germany, as compensation for the economic damage caused by the virus, and when asked if the United States would consider doing the same, Trump said: “We can do much easier than that, Germany is looking at things and we are looking at other things. We have not yet determined the final amount. ” He noted that "the damage was not only caused to the United States, but to the whole world."
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang yesterday accused American politicians of "uttering lies and ignoring their serious problems," without naming Trump.
"They have one goal: to evade their responsibility for the preventive measures and poor control of the epidemic they have taken, and divert the public's attention from the matter," Shuang said, urging US officials to think about their problems and find a way to contain the virus outbreak as quickly as possible.
The outbreak has been brought under control in China, where no new deaths have been recorded for 13 consecutive days, and the death toll in China has reached 4,633.
Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised the ire of Beijing last month when they used the phrase "Chinese virus" when they spoke of the "Covid-19" outbreak, although they apparently abandoned the term later, but a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman later indicated that It was the US military that brought the virus to Wuhan, sparking a furious response from Trump, who accused China of "spreading misleading information."
To that, the census of the site «World Meters» corona virus caused the death of more than 212 thousand people in the world, and infected three million and 80 thousand people, and the total cases of recovery 929 thousand cases until yesterday.
The United States came first in terms of the number of injuries, which amounted to one million and 10 thousand cases, and deaths that totaled more than 56 thousand cases, followed by Spain with 232 thousand injuries, 23 thousand deaths, then Italy 199 thousand injuries and 26 thousand deaths, and France 165 thousand injuries and 23 A thousand deaths, then Germany 158 thousand injuries and 6000 deaths, and then Britain 157 thousand injuries, and 21 thousand deaths.
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A thousand cases of recovery from the virus around the world ... and deaths exceed 212,000.