President Donald Trump emphatically blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic Thursday, and once more made some extent of utilizing the time period "Chinese language virus."

"The world is paying a really large worth for that they did," Trump mentioned, referring to his declare that Chinese language officers didn't absolutely share data sooner in regards to the coronavirus outbreak after it started in China.

"It may have been stopped proper the place it got here from, China," Trump mentioned at a White Home information convention.

He argued that American officers would have been capable of act sooner if China's authorities had absolutely shared details about the outbreak, which started across the metropolis of Wuhan.

"It could have been a lot better if we had identified about this quite a few months earlier," the president mentioned.

Requested if there can be repercussions for China given his view of how that nation dealt with the outbreak, Trump mentioned, "I do not wish to touch upon that proper now."

Two months in the past, Trump praised China's response to the coronavirus, saying that nation...