If Wuhan research lab did unleash Covid the world must stand against China — unified and unflinching

Act on China

IF the US unveils firm evidence that a Wuhan research lab unleashed Covid, the global backlash against China must be unified and unflinching.

Millions are dead and our economies in ruins because the Communists’ instinct was to cover up and lie.

Researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei provinceCredit: EPA

Their blocking of World Health Organisation virus inspectors last week was typical.

If they are sure of their “wet markets” story, what have they got to hide?

But consider too China’s brutal repression of democracy in Hong Kong.

And the million Muslims it has locked up in “re-education camps” to be brainwashed, sterilised, tortured and enslaved.

In short order it has sunk from global powerhouse and economic ally to pariah.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s new clampdown on UK firms profiting from the barbaric abuses inflicted on Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang is welcome but insufficient.

The “forced labour” he condemns is the tip of an iceberg.

As President, Joe Biden must galvanise the world to confront an out-of-control Beijing which is a threat on multiple fronts.

Sadly, the EU appears too greedy for Chinese trade.

But the rest of the West, Britain especially, must stand up and be counted.

Vaccs facts

THE efforts by the Left to rubbish the Government’s vaccine response are deranged.

Some 45 per cent of Brits, mostly Labour and Lib Dem voters, reckon it’s going badly.

The Left have tried to rubbish the Government’s vaccine response which has outstripped the EU and most of the world’s rolloutCredit: PA:Press Association

Which says much about their blinkered prejudice and a desire to ignore inconvenient facts.

Those facts being that, despite these same people claiming it would be suicidal not to buy vaccines as part of a Brussels bloc, our rollout has vastly outstripped the EU’s and most of the world’s.

We approved and rolled out the jabs far earlier.

We have vaccinated far more people, 2.4million by last night, and thus already saved more lives.

No impartial observer considers that shabby.

But The Sun does believe the jabs should be done round the clock.

There is no shortage of willing patients, or ­volunteers to staff the operation . . . with our own Jabs Army standing by.

If we lack vaccines or vaccinators to go at it 24/7, the Government must get them.

Kids betrayed

A CANNY food shopper can make £30 go a decent way.

So the scraps doled out by a firm distributing free school meals parcels are an outrage, a rip-off and an abuse of the hungry kids they are meant to feed.

Well done to Marcus Rashford, once again, for highlighting the issue of children going hungryCredit: AP:Associated Press

Well done to Marcus Rashford, once again, for highlighting the issue.

The Government must be alive to it.

There is evidence the problem is widespread.

Every firm involved should be held to account — and stripped of their contract if they fail to provide ample, healthy grub.

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