The 90-second clip, titled "Once Upon a Virus", was posted on Xinhua's Twitter showing two Lego-like characters with one bearing a Chinese terracotta warrior in a facemask and the other one as the Statue of Liberty having a conversation.

The warrior tells the Statue of Liberty that "strange pneumonia cases" were reported to the World Health Organiation in December 2019, and a month later, claiming: "We have discovered a new virus".

The New York statue’s likeness replies: "So what? It's only a flu." The warrior then gives out instructions to suggest the statue to wear a mask and stay at

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