Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
The article isn't minimising the role China played. It states that's where the pandemic started. Around 75% of cases here were brought in from Spain, France and Italy. That's not surprising, given the close proximity and close relationship between the UK and those countries. Of course things originated in China, take that as read. On a pedantic level, the EU didn't act as an incubation zone.

I don't see how there's scope for having a different opinion. Virus starts in China, spreads, in Britain we can pinpoint where it came from when it entered the country. It's about as factual as you can get.
"The study showed that less than 0.1% of those imported cases came directly from China. Instead the UK's coronavirus epidemic was largely initiated by travel from Italy in late February, Spain in early-to-mid-March and then France in mid-to-late-March."