beijing china on thursday offered to provide the necessary support and assistance to india to deal with the sharp increase in the covid19 cases in the countryasked about the spike in the coronavirus cases in india by the official chinese media foreign ministry spokesman wang wenbin told a media briefing here that the covid19 pandemic is a common enemy of all mankind that necessitates international solidarity and mutual assistancechina takes note of the recent grave situation in india with a temporary shortage of antiepidemic medical supplies he saidwe stand ready to provide india with necessary support and assistance to get the epidemic under control he saidchina reported the first covid19 case in the central chinese city of wuhan in late 2019 and since then the deadly disease has snowballed into a pandemic affecting more than 143915000 people and over 3060500 deaths worldwideaccording to johns hopkins coronavirus tracker the us alone has reported 31862987 cases and 569404 deaths from the deadly virusthe us has alleged that the covid19 may have emanated from the wuhan institute of virology wiv which is a p4 bio lab a charge strongly denied by chinaa team of who experts which probed the origin of the coronavirus concluded last month that all hypotheses included the allegation that covid19 could have emanated from a bio lab remained openworld health organisation who directorgeneral dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus while receiving the report of the international experts team which visited wuhan said on march 30 that as far as the who is concerned all hypotheses remain on the table