A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, Zhao Lijian, tweeted yesterday that “it might be the US army” that brought the coronavirus to China, giving an official boost to a conspiracy theory that had been allowed to circulate on Chinese social media for weeks. The conspiracy posits that 300 athletes from the US military who in October attended the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, were infected with the virus, thereby spreading it in China.

चीन के विदेश मंत्रालय के प्रवक्ता झाओ लिजियान ने ट्वीट कर कहा कि वुहान में कोरोना वायरस फैलाने के लिए अमेरिकी सेना जिम्मेदार हो सकती है. अमेरिका को इस मामले में अपनी जिम्मेदारियां तय करनी होंगी. उसे पारदर्शिता दिखानी चाहिए.

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