Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are many questions for countries, particularly China, around the origins of COVID-19 and how they reacted in the early days of the pandemic.
At the same time, Trudeau told a daily news briefing, the spread of the virus requires a global, co-ordinated response.Trudeau was responding to a question about a Globe and Mail newspaper story that quoted Canada's ambassador to Beijing, Dominic Barton, as saying China is alienating foreign countries and injuring its goodwill abroad as its diplomats have adopted a heavy-handed approach around the world.
More recently, Trump and his supporters have put forward an unproven theory that an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the source of the pandemic. Even so, two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, have been detained in China for more than 500 days over allegations of breaching national security, heightening tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.
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