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Beijing has claimed that [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] may have spawned outside [/news/china/index.html China] and travelled to a wet market in Wuhan via frozen food exports from countries including Australia.<br>An article in the government-controlled [ ] newspaper on Sunday said the idea the virus was imported into the Huanan wet market last year 'cannot be ruled out' - although it admitted there is no supporting evidence.<br>Beijing has been pushing the theory since October when experts tracing an outbreak in Qingdao city found living coronavirus samples on packets of imported frozen cod.  <br>         Biejing has claimed that coronavirus may have spawned outside China and travelled to a wet market in Wuhan (pictured) via frozen food imports from other countries including Australia<br>         Coronavirus cases were first reported in Wuhan in December before spreading rapidly around the world, causing 1.5million deaths.<br><br>Pictured: Temperature checks in Guangzhou in January<br>         The Global Times also claimed Australia has been 'the pawn in the US regional strategy in the recent years' and pictured a cartoon of a kangaroo projecting the shadow of an eagle, the national emblem of America<br>Western scientists say the theory is 'highly speculative' and believe it is much more likely that the disease passed from bats to another animal species and then to  humans in Wuhan. <br>Coronavirus cases were first reported in the Chinese city in December last year before the disease spread rapidly around the world, causing 1.5million deaths and wrecking economies.<br>The Global Times report comes amid escalating political and economic tension between Australia and China after Beijing slapped a 212 per cent tariff on Aussie wine and shared doctored propaganda images referencing war crimes allegations against Australian[# <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Previous][# Previous] [# 1] [# Next]     [/news/article-9016481/Where-Australia-without-China-retaliating-trade-wont-work.html  The grim reality facing Australia if we get into a...] [/news/article-9022213/China-slams-Australian-effort-develop-hypersonic-missile-potential-threat-Asian-superpower.html  China slams Australia's efforts to develop a new hypersonic...]    <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>However, the [http://topofblogs.com/tag/authors%20admitted authors admitted] there was no evidence to support the theory that the virus started outside China.  <br>An anonymous expert was quoted as saying: 'Theoretically, it is possible that coronavirus from other countries caused the early outbreak in Wuhan, but we lack evidence.'<br>China cites frozen food packaging as a Covid-19 risk and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html tour quảng châu] has stepped up inspections even though the World Health Organization says neither food nor packaging is a known transmission route. <br>This is not the first time [https://www.rewards-insiders.marriott.com/search.jspa?q=Beijing Beijing] has pushed the theory that the disease was brought into China on frozen food packets. <br>         A meat vendor  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] wearing a face mask waits for customers at a market in Wuhan in April<br>The government-controlled People's Daily newspaper published an article on 25 November titled 'COVID-19 did not start in central China's Wuhan but may come through imported frozen food and packaging:  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html tour quảng châu] experts.'  <br>The previous week the The Global Times had also pushed the theory, quoting Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist of China's Center for Disease Control, as saying: 'It is very likely that the virus had co-existed in multiple places before being spotted in Wuhan.' <br>The expert said the virus was identified in Wuhan thanks to the strength of China's infectious disease prevention system, which was developed in response to the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.<br>Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news briefing last month: 'Although China was the first to report cases, it doesn't necessarily mean that the virus originated in China.<br>'Origin tracing is an ongoing process that may involve multiple countries and regions,' he said.<br>In March, Lijian had suggested that the US army brought the virus to Wuhan.<br>The Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, has also said it was unclear whether the virus originated in China.  <br>         The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan i still closed and boarded up after the outbreak a year ago<br>The Global Times and other Chinese media has cited a paper published by Italy's National Cancer Institute which said Covid-19 antibodies had been found in samples of cancer patients taken there in October last year.<br>Another paper published earlier this year claimed to have found traces of SARS-Cov-2 in the sewage system of Barcelona in samples taken in March 2019 - but both studies have drawn criticism in the West.<br>'Strong claims supported by flimsy evidence get widely reported without the necessary scrutiny and consideration of a wider body of available evidence,' Francois Balloux, a geneticist at University College London, said on Twitter.<br>He said that even if the virus was present in Italy in September, it doesn't necessarily mean it originated there.<br>'One strong line of evidence is that by far the closest virus we know to SARS-Cov-2 is circulating in bats in China.<br><br>Moving the timeline, you could still have essentially the same origin in East Asia, and most likely China, which then would spread to other parts of the world,' he told Reuters.<br>'That would not change the narrative about the origin.' <br>          People wearing masks walk trough Xihua Farmer's Market in Guangzhou, China in May<br>Michael Ryan, director of the health emergencies programme at the WHO, said last month that claims the virus did not originate in China are 'highly speculative'.<br>'It is clear from a public health perspective that you start your investigations where the human cases first emerged,' he said at a news conference in Geneva. <br>But Peter Ben Embarek, WHO's expert in animal diseases, appeared to open the door to other possible origins than Wuhan in remarks at a social media event in Geneva late last month.<br>He said it would be important to investigate whether the market workers had 'some commonalities outside Wuhan, in some of the countryside or provinces or farming environments or hunting environments in southern China or perhaps even outside China?'<br>A WHO situation [ ]