A man is pictured wearing a hazmat suit in Wuhan, China. Boris Johnson’s allies turned on China over the coronavirus crisis yesterdayBoris Johnson’s allies turned on China over the coronavirus crisis yesterday, as Britain’s death toll from the epidemic reached four figures. Ministers and senior Downing Street officials said the Communist state now faces a ‘reckoning’ over its handling of the outbreak and risks becoming a ‘pariah state’. A discredited story, shared widely on China's Weibo social media platform, claims coronavirus was first detected in Italy in November. Ironically – and for critics, cynically – China has now started to donate masks and other equipment to other countries.

Source: Daily Mail March 28, 2020 22:02 UTC