10 Mar 2021
A German children’s book that stated that the coronavirus came from China has been pulped after the publisher caved to pressure from Communist Party diplomats and local Chinese people.
The book which was published in the summer of last year is entitled A Corona Rainbow for Anna and Moritz. The book tried to help children understand the radically different world they found themselves in following the pandemic.
In the picture book, the childrens’ father says: “The virus comes from China and has spread out from there across the whole world,” according to
The Times.
The book was based on advice from a tropical medicine institute in Hamburg.
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