CORONAVIRUS | China has broken its silence over repeated claims from the Trump administration that Beijing has not been honest with the world over the spread of the coronavirus which has now infected more than a million people and taken over 52,000 lives.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying has returned fire at top US officials, saying like Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeop saying "these comments by those US politicians are just shameless and morally repulsive."