Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday questioned Washington's intensive deployment of biological laboratories in countries neighboring China and Russia, as well as its unwillingness to disclose the biological experiments being performed in those facilities. Furthermore, he noted that for about 20 years the United States has been one of the few countries against a protocol establishing a mechanism to verify and check parties' compliance with their commitment not to create biological weapons.
Some American politicians have been preaching the timeline of COVID-19 response in the United States, but it doesn't always match up with facts. Their trumpet-blowing remarks are always self-contradictory, and the ridiculous blame game is even more outrageous.
LHASA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, will gradually reopen all temples in its towns and city proper except the Jokhang Temple starting Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic in the country has been subdued. After the reopening, all local temples will not hold clustered religious activities attended by Buddhist believers for the time being, said the city's Buddhist association.
US president Donald Trump recently caused an uproar worldwide when he said that the National Institute of Health began developing a COVID-19 vaccine on January 11, signaling that the Trump administration had been lying about China hiding information about the virus and casting doubts over the real timeline of the coronavirus epidemic in the US. US president Donald Trump said NIH began developing COVID-19 vaccine on January 11 at a press conference on May 15.
