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April 21, 2020 04: 15:54
China dismisses Australia’s questioning of how Beijing dealt with the coronavirus pandemic, while New York is set to remain in lockdown for weeks and the Mayor of Estonia’s ‘corona island’ resigns.
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China rejects Payne’s calls for independent examination
China dismissed Australia’s questioning of how Beijing handled the coronavirus pandemic as groundless, saying it had actually been open and transparent, in spite of growing scepticism about the precision of its official death toll.
On Sunday Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne required an international investigation into the origins and spread of the virus, signing up with a chorus of issue over how China dealt with the virus that emerged in its main city of Wuhan late in 2015.
Since then the infection has actually triggered over 2.4 million infections and more than 165,000 deaths worldwide, paralysing life and business in significant cities.
” Australian Foreign Minister Payne’s remarks are not based upon realities. China is seriously concerned about and strongly opposed to this,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang stated.
” Any doubt about China’s tran