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COVID: China urges US to ‘stop attacking’ Beijing over virus origins

By DW
02 November 2021   |   12:48 pm
Beijing said the use of spy agencies, not scientists, was "iron-clad proof" of Washington's attempts to politicize the origins of COVID-19. A new report published Friday shed little fresh light on how the virus emerged.

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