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'WHO is China's PR agency': Trump says evidence ties Covid-19 to Wuhan lab

Trump also said that China does not want to see him elected in polls due later this year, mainly because of the billions of dollars he has been taking from them as import tariffs

President Donald Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus
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President Donald Trump speaks in an address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House about the coronavirus

BS Web TeamAgencies New Delhi
As the US recorded more than 2,000 deaths on three consecutive days, President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on China on Thursday. He said that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of itself, and likened it to a public relations agency for China. He also claimed that coronavirus, which has shattered economies, emerged from a virology lab in the Wuhan city of China.
 
"I think that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like the public relations agency for China," Trump told reporters in the East Room of the White House. The administration

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