Donald Trump emphatically blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic and again made a point of using the term “Chinese virus.”

“The world is paying a very big price for that they did. It could have been stopped right where it came from, China”, - Trump said, referring to his claim that Chinese officials did not fully share information sooner about the coronavirus outbreak after it began in China.

He argued that American officials would have been able to act faster if China’s government had fully shared information about the outbreak, which began around the city of Wuhan: “It would have been much better if we had known about this a number of months earlier”.

Asked if there would be repercussions for China given his view of how that country handled the outbreak, Trump said: “I don’t want to comment on that right now”.