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‘We Are Not Happy With China’: Trump Says US Investigating Beijing’s Handling Of Covid-19 Outbreak
US President Donald Trump.
US President while addressing a news conference on coronavirus pandemic said his administration has launched "very serious investigations" into China's response to the novel coronavirus.
"And we are not happy with China, we are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source," he said. "It could have been stopped quickly and it wouldn't have spread all over the world," the BBC reported.
Trump's criticism was the latest from his administration to target how China managed the coronavirus outbreak, which began late last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan and grew into a pandemic.
"Nobody except one country can be held accountable for what happened," Trump said.
The US will never forget those who were "sacrificed for a reason of incompetence or something else other than incompetence," he added.
"They" - referring to China - "could've protected the whole world - not just us - the whole world," he said.
The coronavirus outbreak has killed more than 211,000 people around the world, including more than 56,000 in the US, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
(With inputs from IANS)
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