A Chinese medical expert has suggested that the US may have obtained a specimen of the novel coronavirus before China did, raising the possibility that Washington had known about the disease before Beijing. Beijing also announced on Monday that it had granted permission for its researchers to perform clinical tests for a possible coronavirus vaccine, which is being developed by the nation's top military bio-warfare expert. While US President Trump repeatedly referred to the virus as 'the Chinese virus' and insisted that 'it's not racist at all'. Beijing's top coronavirus expert on Wednesday denied that the bug originated in Wuhan for the second time and slammed such claim as 'irresponsible'. China today reported no new domestic cases of coronavirus for the second day in a row, but the number of imported infections has risen to 228.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 11:45 UTC