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Coronavrius: was it a weapon all along?

23 March 2020

6:44 PM

23 March 2020

6:44 PM

People are beginning to wonder if the Chinese coronavirus really was a natural occurrence. You will recall that what was initially referred to as the Chinese or Wuhan coronavirus for the simple reason that it came from China – a nomenclature that was at least as old as the Spanish flu and as recent as Ebola – was renamed by the World Health Organisation as  Covid-19 in order to appease the Chinese government. 

President Trump, much to the annoyance of China, has called the virus the Chinese virus.

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