(Photo : Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) China Holds Annual Two Sessions Meetings Amidst Global Coronavirus Pandemic
BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 28: Chinese president Xi Jinping listens during the closing session of the National People s Congress, which included a vote on a new draft security bill for Hong Kong, at the Great Hall of the People on May 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. The Chinese government passed the draft by a vote of 2,878 votes to one during the session. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, China slammed the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calling the lawmaker s recently disclosed report claiming COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab despicable and politically motivated.
Since late 2019, the COVID pandemic has killed at least 4 million people worldwide. It has shaved a year and a half off of U.S. life expectancy. It has necessitated, or at least excused, the expenditure of trillions of dollars, the accumulation of massive amounts of public debt, and the simultaneous destruction of large portions of the private sector economy. It has kept family and friends apart, even at poignant moments like births, marriages, and deaths. It has upended life as we know it, in short, when it didn t snuff that life out altogether.
For all these reasons, you might think that the genesis of the virus, and the moral and legal responsibility for its spread, would be at the very top of every political, social, and economic leader s agenda. Surely, if ever there was a mystery worth solving, a wrong worth righting, it is the question of how COVID came to be, and who, if anyone, inflicted the dreaded virus on the world.
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The Commission has adopted decisions ensuring that COVID-19 certificates issued by the Vatican City State and San Marino will be considered equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate. This means that both countries will be connected to the EU s system and that COVID certificates issued by the Vatican and San Marino will be accepted in the EU under the same conditions as the EU Digital COVID Certificate. In practice, holders of these certificates will be able to use these certificates under the same conditions as holders of an EU Digital COVID Certificate. At the same time, the Vatican and San Marino have indicated that they would accept EU Digital COVID Certificates for travel to their countries.
Beijing dismisses Republican report into Covid-19 s Wuhan lab origins as concocted lies and distorted facts that smears and slanders China
Communist Party spokesman said the GOP report was based on concocted lies and distorted facts without providing any evidence, is not credible or scientific
He accused US congressmen of smears and slander in pursuit of political gains
Comes after damning report by Republicans accused the Chinese of a cover-up
It said the Wuhan lab was working to modify coronaviruses with US funding
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