Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Washington had been infected by a 'political virus' to continually attack China.
BEIJING - China said Sunday that relations with the United States were "on the brink of a new Cold War", fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Washington had been infected by a "political virus" to continually attack China, but added the country would be open to an international effort to find the coronavirus source. Hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world were celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, with Islam's two most important mosques still closed to worshippers in Mecca and Medina.
"My cell phone is crackling with messages!" Father Pierre Amar, a priest in Versailles, just outside Paris, told AFP. In Senegal's capital Dakar, muslim worshippers packed the outdoor floors of the esplanade at a main mosque for Eid prayers. Orderlies distributed hand gel and tried to keep people apart to respect social distancing.
_The Observer _and Sunday Mirror reported he had broken lockdown restrictions again and was seen in Durham a second time on 19 April, days after he had returned to work in London following his first trip north.
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