China admits it destroyed the first Coronavirus champions, confirming the US charge.

Liu Dengfeng, an overseer at China's National Health Commission's Science and Education Department, said at a press conference in Beijing on Friday that the Chinese government issued an order on January 3rd to destroy the storm samples, Newsweek writes.

Liu, however, denied that their destruction has been done in an effort to cover up the situation, insisting that this step was launched in order to prevent the risk of biological laboratory safety and prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens”, Telegraphed.

He said the labs were the unauthorized” to treat such champions, and that they should be destroyed in accordance with Chinese public health laws. The official did not explain how many labs had carried out the move. His statement comes amid the escalation of diplomatic relations between the United States and China due to the epidemic outbreak, which had its beginnings in Wuhan in 2019.

The Chinese Communist Party has not yet shared with the world the virus champions from within China”, he said, and this head of American diplomacy makes it impossible to trace the evolution of the disease.

State Secretary Mike Pompeo has argued since last month that the January 3rd order was an attempt to cover the extent of the blast. He's accused China of censorship research on coronavirus.

The Chinese Communist Party tried to print information about this virus, about where it started, about the way it started, about how it was being transmitted from man to man”, Pompeo said on Monday.