China accused Boris Johnson of engaging in “unfounded conjectures” after suggesting that the coronavirus could have spread from people by grinding the scales of pangolins.
The prime minister speculated about the origin of COVID-19 during a speech at an environmental summit on Monday.
He said it was “the product of an imbalance in man’s relationship with the natural world”.
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The PM continued: “As the original plague that hit the Greeks, it seems that I remember in book one of the Iliad, it is a zoonotic disease.
“It originates from bats or pangolins, from the insane belief that if you grind the scales of a pangolin, it will somehow become more potent or whatever people believe, it originates from this collision between man and the natural world and we have to stop. “
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But Beijing Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said “careful and meticulous” studies are needed to discover the source of the coronavirus outbreak.
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