COVID-19: China attacks PM after he suggests coronavirus could have spread from people grinding pangolin scales | Politics

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”. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player December: One year on since coronavirus was spotted The PM continued: “Like the original plague which struck the Greeks I seem to remember in book one of the Iliad, it…