WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said the United States strongly believes that China’s ruling communist party failed to report the outbreak of the new coronavirus in a timely manner to the World Health Organization.
Speaking at a State Department news conference, Pompeo also accused China of failing to report human-to-human transmission of the virus “for a month until it was in every province inside of China.”
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay, Humeyra Pamuk and David Brunnstrom; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
