China looking to shift blame for COVID-19 pandemic to clear its international reputation

China is looking to shift blame for COVID-19 outbreak after almost a year since first case was detected in Chinese city of Wuhan. Ever since Zeng Guang, an ex-epidemiologist at Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that coronavirus originated elsewhere before it appeared in China in December 2019, state-controlled media of Communist State have directed all ir resources in propagating claim as fact. 

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Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian also indicated same saying it doesn't necessarily mean that virus originated in China, even though country was first in world to report cases. Chinese scientists have also submitted a paper to science journal Lancet, wherein y have suggested that virus may have originated in Indian subcontinent well before it appeared in China. paper is awaiting peer review before it can be published. 

'Highly speculative' 

China is yet to provide any solid evidence to back its extreme claim, which western scientists say is thing but a way to whitewash itself. China's reputation at international st has been tarnished after it emerged that virus originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, which was operating illegally. People familiar with China's policies say country is trying to change international public opinion by shifting blame for outbreak on somebody else. 

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Michael Ryan, director of health emergencies programme at World Health Organization (WHO), earlier this week dubbed reports of COVID-19 emerging somewhere else as 'highly speculative'.

Western scientists say it appears certain that first recorded cases of COVID-19 emerged from China, where human-to-human transmission might also have taken place, thus it is most likely that disease originated in country itself.

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China was also source of SARS-CoV-1 outbreak that happened between 2002-2004 and infected more than 8,000 people from 29 different countries and killed at least 774. latest SARS-CoV-2, which emerged in late 2019, has so far infected 62.5 million people and killed 1.46 million worldwide.

ongoing pandemic is deliest in over 100 years due to sheer number of people it has impacted, which again is one of main concerns of China and why it wants to shift blame as soon as possible before history registers it. 

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