Trump says China unleashed Covid on world, Xi discourages politicizing virus

United Nations, Sep 22 (efe-epa).- United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the United Nations to hold China to account for having ࢀœunleashed the plagueࢀ of Covid-19 on the world while Chinaࢀ™s leader Xi Jinping warned against any attempts to politicize the pandemic. The US Republican leader also repeated his claims that the World Health Organization, from which he has said the US would withdraw, was ࢀœvirtually controlled by China.ࢀ He made his remarks during a seven-minute, pre-recorded address to the 75th UN General Assembly in New York. ࢀœWe will distribute a vaccine, we will defeat the virus, we…