The Chinese embassy in Denmark was angry when the Jyllands-Posten newspaper posted a Chinese flag containing corona virus and demanded an apology.

"Without any sympathy and empathy, the act surpassed the standards of civilized society and the moral boundary of freedom of speech, offended human conscience," today's statement by Dai Chinese embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, stated.

Jyllands-Posten published on January 27 posted a cartoon with a Chinese flag with five yellow stars, but these stars were replaced with five corona virus (nCoV), a new strain of corona virus that causes pneumonia. issued on Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Jyllands-Posten editor-in-chief Jacob Nybroe explained the newspaper had no intention of mocking the reality of the strange Wuhan pneumonia that occurred in China, killing 106 people and thousands infected, but refused to apologize. , according to the Danish newspaper Ritzau.

In 2005, the Jyllands-Posten newspaper published a cartoon about the prophet Mohammad, causing outrage in the Muslim community worldwide. Jyllands-Posten is a daily newspaper printed on large format paper in Danish. The newspaper headquarters is located in Viby, a suburb of the city of Aarhus and is one of the best-selling paper newspapers in the country.

The National Health Commission said this morning that 26 more people died from pneumonia stemming from nCoV, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease to 106. The majority of victims in Hubei Province, where outbreaks last month in the capital Wuhan. The number of nCoV virus infections in China also increased sharply, from 2,887 to 4,515. In addition, nearly 7,000 suspected cases of Wuhan pneumonia are awaiting confirmation. China was forced to blockade Wuhan and many other cities due to fears of widespread disease.

The World Health Organization (WHO) rates the risks from nCoV pneumonia as "very high in China, high in the region and globally", but has not considered it an emergency.