China rejected the WHO's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of COVID-19, saying it supported 'scientific' over 'political' efforts to find out how the virus started.
A firefighter wearing protective gear against the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus sprays disinfectant in a residental area in Yangzhou, in China's eastern Jiangsu provinceBEIJING - China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported"scientific" over"political" efforts to find out how the virus started.
China hit back, repeating its position that the initial investigation was enough and that calls for further data were motivated by politics instead of scientific inquiry."We oppose political tracing ... and abandoning the joint report" issued after the WHO expert team's Wuhan visit in January, vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told reporters."We support scientific tracing."
Even WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the initial probe into Wuhan's virology labs had not gone far enough, while President Joe Biden in May ordered a separate investigation into the virus origins from the US intelligence community.
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