China accused Boris Johnson of having an “unfounded suspicion” after suggesting the coronavirus could spread from people who messed up the scales of pangolins.
During a speech at an environmental summit on Monday, the prime minister speculated about the origins of COVID-19.
He said it was ‘the product of an imbalance in man’s relationship with the natural world’.
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The prime minister continued: ‘Like the original plague that struck the Greeks, I seem to remember in book one of the Iliad, it is a zoonotic disease.
‘It has its origins in bats or pangolins, from the demented belief that if you sharpen the balance of a pangolin, you will somehow become more powerful or whatever people believe, it stems from this collision between the humanity and the natural world. must stop it. ‘
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But Beijing spokesman Zhao Lijian said ‘careful and meticulous’ studies are needed to discover the origin of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more at Sky News.