China targets PM Boris Johnson after suggestion coronavirus could have spread from grinding pangolin

Share on Pinterest Share China has accused Boris Johnson of engaging in "groundless conjecture" after he suggested that coronavirus could have spread from people grinding up the scales of pangolins. The prime minister speculated about the origin of COVID-19 during a speech to an environmental summit on Monday. He said it was "the product of an imbalance in man's relationship with the natural world". UK PRIME MINISTER PRAISES BRITS FOR 'SACRIFICE' AS NEW CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN LOOMS: 'WE HAVE NO CHOICE' The PM continued: "Like the original plague which struck the Greeks I seem to remember in book one of the…