Senator Tom Cotton claims that China 'deliberately' allowed coronavirus to wreak havoc on the rest of the world as he calls for the Chinese Communist Party to be 'held responsible'

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has claimed that China 'deliberately' allowed the rest of the world to become infected with the novel coronavirus.

He made the comments during an interview on Fox's Outnumbered Overtime after it emerged that US intelligence officials are investigating whether the virus could have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.

Cotton said that even if there was a lack of 'conclusive evidence' on where the virus originated, the cover up in the weeks following the outbreak allowed the disease to spread beyond China to wreak havoc on the rest of the world.

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