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A police officer in Lancashire, England was recorded threatening a British citizen with arrest on made-up charges during a coronavirus confrontation that has gone viral on social media.

A Chinese commerce ministry official asserted on Thursday that writing off onerous African debts to Beijing under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic would be “not simple nor effective.”

The first cases identified of the Wuhan coronavirus may have occurred south of Wuhan as early as September, according to a team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge. The South China Morning Post reported the findings on Thursday.

MADRID (AP) — Spain has reached 20,000 deaths for the coronavirus pandemic and total infections increased to more than 190,000.

The Italian government is allowing tens of thousands of Italian firms to resume their operations due to the state’s inability to process the avalanche of requests that have inundated it.

The British government reportedly spent £16 million on two million coronavirus home test kits from two separate Chinese companies, none of which work.

More than eight-in-ten American adults call mass migration at least a “threat” to the United States, a survey finds.

The United States is asking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab to determine if the novel coronavirus originated there, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated on Friday.

The human rights NGO Cuban Prisoners Defenders published an article on Friday citing three Cuban medical researchers concluding that the communist regime’s publicity campaign for Interferon alpha-2b, which it claims can cure Chinese coronavirus, is a “serious crime against world public health.”

Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) outrageous effort to pressure the legislature of Wisconsin to pass a resolution praising Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus effort “backfired spectacularly,” leading to a motion that will condemn the CCP for lying to the world if it passes.

On April 13, Ugandan pop star turned politician Bobi Wine offered to help airlift Africans out of China after learning of the “inhumane treatment” black people were suffering at the hands of Han Chinese in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Africans living in China continued reporting incidents of discrimination this week and worried they are being scapegoated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for a resurgence of coronavirus infections.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet appeared to blame Africans in Guangzhou, a southern city with a large African immigrant population, on Friday for the widely documented bigotry by Han Chinese against them there, demanding they “readjust their way of thinking.”

Chinese state media on Friday admitted the death toll from the coronavirus in Wuhan had to be “rectified” by admitting to 1,290 more deaths – an increase of about fifty percent – but insisted it was merely a paperwork adjustment unrelated to mounting global anger with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its extravagant and dangerous lies about the pandemic.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained at a press conference on Friday that everything the state needed to fight the coronavirus was made in China, which should be a strong wakeup call for leaders in the United States.

American Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft said on Thursday that the World Health Organization’s failure to assess the threat posed by the coronavirus cost “thousands of lives.”

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that President Donald Trump was right to halt funding of the World Health Organization over its handling of the Chinese coronavirus, saying the WHO had “actively helped to spread this disease around the world” through its irresponsibility.

Hong Kong’s new fire chief Joseph Leung on Wednesday dismissed criticism that he referred to pro-democracy protesters as “cockroaches” during a lecture at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy in October.

Lifting the shutdown orders did not set the Chinese economy off to the races. Instead, activity appears to be crawling back toward growth

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday weighed in on the possibility of moving the 2022 Winter Olympics from China as a result of the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Although Pompeo is “focused on today,” he

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faced controversy during his campaign to run the global agency for being part of a government that repeatedly denied cholera outbreaks, according to the New York Times.

In northeast Kenya, 32 people have gone missing from a Wuhan coronavirus quarantine facility under suspicious circumstances, Nairobi News reported on Tuesday. The disappearance comes amid a partial lockdown in Kenya to stem the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

The UK has not enacted incoming travel restrictions, leaving over 100,000 arrivals a week free to enter the country, totally unscreened.

Both China and Taiwan have donated masks and medical supplies to the Vatican in recent days but while the Vatican thanked China publicly it has kept silent over Taiwan’s generosity.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday there has never been a cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in China, simply some reassessment of accounting procedures. Zhao maintained the Communist Party of China (CCP) does not allow cover-ups so the latest figures will stand.

Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak, dramatically lifted the number of cases and deaths in the regional center late Thursday night after “a city-wide investigation,” state media reported. Local authorities admitted previous figures had been skewed due to omissions, delays and mistakes.

Thursday on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) decried China’s handling of the immediate discovery of the coronavirus infection, and how China neglected to prevent the spread.

Cotton and Crenshaw introduced a bill that would allow Americans to sue China in federal court for damages caused by the Wuhan Virus.

For four decades, the United States has admitted between 525,000 to 1.8 million legal immigrants annually — the majority of which immediately enter the workforce to compete against Americans for working-class jobs.

Executives with the George W. Bush Presidential Center say more globalization of the American economy is the answer to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, not the problem.

he Economic Times of India reported on Thursday that some 50,000 of the 170,000 virus protection kits shipped by China on April 5 were “found unusable because they failed safety checks.” Two smaller consignments with a total of 40,000 kits were found completely unusable.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that his controversial performance would be reviewed “in due course,” once the coronavirus pandemic is over.

House Democrats revived the specter of impeachment for President Donald Trump if he moves forward with his order to defund the communist China-influenced World Health Organization (W.H.O.) for mismanaging and covering up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak during its early stages.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has turned down at least 70 percent of Taiwan’s requests for meetings, the island’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said on Wednesday, Taiwan News reported.

The U.S. State Department compiled a report the Wall Street Journal claimed to obtain on Wednesday that found China may have conducted underground nuclear tests in defiance of international treaties.

There is “increasing confidence” that coronavirus likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, according to a report in Fox News.