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Duterte names ex-president Macapagal-Arroyo adviser for Clark The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid published by the People’s Daily, has also promoted the theory that COVID-19 originated outside China. “When and where did the virus start circulating? Tracing the virus cannot answer all questions, but it is very likely that the virus had co-existed in multiple places before being spotted in Wuhan,†Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist of China’s Center for Disease Control, said in Tuesday’s Global Times. The fact that it was detected first in Wuhan was a testament to the strength of China’s infectious disease prevention system, which was...