President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his behavior of calling coronavirus the "Chinese language virus."

"It isn't racist in any respect," Trump mentioned at a White Home press convention to debate the coronavirus pandemic. "No, by no means."

Trump was requested about his persistent use of the time period "Chinese language virus" regardless of well being officers saying that ethnicity doesn't trigger the virus and reviews that dozens of incidents of bias in opposition to Chinese language-People who've been blamed for allegedly spreading the coronavirus.

"As a result of it comes from China," Trump mentioned to the reporter who requested him that query. "That is why."

"I wish to be correct."

Trump additionally mentioned that Chinese language authorities officers initially "tried to say at one level, perhaps they stopped saying now, that it was brought on by American troopers."

"That may't occur. It isn't going to occur. Not so long as I am president," Trump mentioned. "It comes from China."

The director of the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, Robert Redfield, final week...