Italian Embassy in Beijing Refutes CCP’s Fake News That COVID-19 First Appeared in Italy

Italian Embassy in Beijing Refutes CCP’s Fake News That COVID-19 First Appeared in Italy
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi looks on at the Quirinal palace after a meeting with the Italian president, in Rome, on Feb. 3, 2021. Alessandra Tarantino/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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While the world is focusing on the possibility of the CCP virus leaking from a Wuhan lab that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, major Chinese online news portals have simultaneously reposted a piece of news, saying that the Italian Prime Minister had admitted that the outbreak appeared in Italy earlier than in China. The Italian embassy to Beijing quickly denied it, calling it a lie.

On June 7, major Chinese news portals including 163.com, Tencent’s qq.com, and the Chinese communist regime’s chief military website xilu.com were all posting the same news claiming that Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi admitted for the first time in a video interview at the Prime Minister’s Office on that day that as early as the summer of 2019, the COVID-19 epidemic began to spread in northern Italy including Milan.

Alex Wu
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Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.
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