'A large body of facts and data suggest that China did not play down, obfuscate or cover up the dangers posed by the novel coronavirus when it emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan,' the Chinese consulate stated.
The outbreak of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, is believed to have first been detected in Wuhan, China, during late 2019. Since then, the virus has affected more than 4.7 million people and killed more than 310,000 people sound the globe.
Kenney takes on the side of American President Donald Trump in a theory that China could have stopped the pandemic, or slowed it to a crawl, at least."If there is a comparison between what he has done during the outbreak with what Wuhan has, he will not look smarter," the consulate wrote."A final friendly reminder for the Premier: You are based in Edmonton, not [Canadian capital] Ottawa. And your China-blaming comment might not please Mr. Trump since he will not spare a glance.
Trump shut off travel from China to the United States on January 31 to help stifle the virus from entering the States, and he has constantly blamed China for intentionally spreading the virus around the world. Meanwhile, China and Canada have developed a rocky relationship over the detainment of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was held in Vancouver beginning in 2018.
Residents queue watching as a medical worker takes a swab sample from another resident to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus, in a street in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 15, 2020. - Authorities in the pandemic ground zero of Wuhan have ordered mass COVID-19 testing for all 11 million residents after a new cluster of cases emerged over the weekend.
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