Beijing, May 1 -- China on Wednesday accused the US for originating COVID-19, claiming America was trying to "shift the blame" after US President Donald Trump said that the disease was leaked from a Wuhan lab, New York Post reported.

The Chinese government has said that "substantial evidence" suggested that COVID might have emerged from the US earlier than the outbreak in China, while insisting the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely" in a white paper.

Chinese officials said, "The US government, instead of facing squarely its failure in response to Covid-19 and reflecting on its shortcomings, has tried to shift the blame and divert people's attention by shamelessly politicising SARS-CoV-2 origins tracing."

According to the report, ...