BEIJING: The United States has taken actions that create and spread fear following a coronavirus outbreak in China, instead of offering any significant assistance, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. The United States was the first nation to suggest partial withdrawal of its embassy staff, and the first to impose a ban on Chinese travellers said ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. “All it has done could only create and spread fear, which is a bad example,” Hua told an online news briefing, adding that China hoped countries would make judgments and responses that were reasonable, calm and based on science. The United States began evacuating US citizens from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have first emerged late last year, on Jan 28. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Jan 30 declared the accelerating outbreak a global emergency.

Source: Pakistan Today February 03, 2020 09:45 UTC