China dismisses suggestions COVID-19 pandemic originated from bats or pangolins

China has dismissed suggestions by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the coronavirus pandemic could have originated from bats or pangolins.

“Don’t forget that the coronavirus pandemic was the product of an imbalance in man’s relationship with the zoonotic disease (transmitted between humans and animals),” Mr Johnson told the virtual One Planet Summit on Monday.

“Whether it originates from bats or pangolins, from the demented belief that if you grind up the scales of a pangolin, you somehow…