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Tory chiefs blame China over 'scale' of coronavirus pandemic

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Boris Johnson's allies have begun criticising China over the coronavirus crisis, with one Cabinet minister appearing to apportion some blame to Beijing for the UK's lack of mass testing.Michael Gove said some of the signals coming out of China were not clear about "the scale, the nature, the infectiousness" of the disease when he was questioned about testing.Former Tory party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith accused China of a "cover up" since the virus emerged there, while the Mail on Sunday quoted a senior Government source saying a "reckoning" will follow the crisis.And the paper quoted a Cabinet minister as saying: "We can't stand by and allow the Chinese state's desire for secrecy to ruin the world's economy and then come back like nothing

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