A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story China


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Nearly a year after doctors identified the first cases of a worrying new disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan , the country appears to be stepping up a campaign to question the origins of the global Covid-19 pandemic. State media has been reporting intensively on coronavirus discovered on packaging of frozen food imports, not considered a significant vector of infection elsewhere, and research into possible cases of the disease found outside China’s borders before December 2019. The official People’s Daily newspaper claimed in a Facebook post last week that “all available evidence suggests that the coronavirus did not start...