Wu Zunyou has claimed that the present "wave of the epidemic has already infected about 80 per cent of the people" in the country of 1.4 billion population.
MEA also said that the India has taken the issue of the torture of Arunachal Pradesh boy who was taken in custody by the Chinese side earlier in January.
Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had stated that Washington and its allies are in "active conversations" about how to approach the Beijing Olympics.