Trump: China has infected the world, it must be held responsible for the virus

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22 September 2020 "We must make China responsible" for spreading this scourge around the world ": Donald Trump said in his conference call to the UN General Assembly, where he spoke of" Chinese virus "and" invisible enemy " "referring to Covid. We will

The president then said that the United States will distribute a vaccine, defeat the virus, end the pandemic and enter" a new era of prosperity, cooperation and unprecedented peace. "

"Seventy-five years after the end of World War II and the founding of the UN, we find ourselves once again engaged in a global battle," said Donald Trump, referring to the "fierce battle against the invisible enemy, the virus of China, which has caused a huge number of victims in 188 countries ".

"In the United States we have launched the most aggressive mobilization since World War II," he went on to claim the progress made in the construction of lung ventilators, treatments, and vaccines, three of which "have reached the final stages of the trial", while millions of doses are already being produced.

"I'm proudly putting America first," Trump tells the General Assembly, this year in a Zoom version for the coronavirus.

Leaders are allowed 15 minutes each but the US president cut short, speaking for only 7 minutes.