UNITED NATIONS – United States President Donald Trump angrily cast blame on China over the coronavirus pandemic in an address on Tuesday before the United Nations.
“We must hold accountable the nations which unleashed this plague onto the world – China,” Trump said.
“Those who attack America’s exceptional environmental record while ignoring China’s rampant pollution are not interested in the environment. They only want to punish America. And I will not stand for it,” he said.
Trump renewed his criticism of China’s role in the respiratory disease, news of which was suppressed when cases first emerged late last year in Wuhan.
“The Chinese government, and the World Health Organization – which is virtually controlled by China – falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission,” Trump said, referring to initial statements by the UN health body that it later revised.
Trump has given notice that the US is pulling out of the WHO.(AFP)
