Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!China has claimed that Covid originated in America in a bid to shift the blame from Wuhan.
Beijing's communist newspaper suggested the US was "politicising the origin-tracing research" and putting scientists at the centre of a "political storm"."Prominent US and Australian scientists focused on the COVID-19 origins tracing are now facing tremendous political pressure, and some have been sidelined for not yielding to (the) politicians-driven conspiracy theory," the Global Times said.In the piece, China claimed the results suggest the virus was in America much earlier than reported.Blood samples taken from across the 50 states between January 2 and March 18 last year found two positive.