Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The United States should stop politicizing the issue of COVID-19 traceability COVID-19 | Virus | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a regular press conference today. On the issue of COVID-19 traceability, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said that China has always advocated respecting scientific facts, actively supporting and participating in global scientific traceability, and firmly opposed any form of political manipulation on the issue of COVID-19 traceability. So far, China is the only country that has invited the WHO international expert group to carry out traceability cooperation with COVID-19 in China for many times, and also the only country that has organized experts to share the progress of traceability with the advisory group for many times. On the issue of COVID-19 traceability, China has shared the most data and research results and made the greatest contribution, which fully reflects China's open, transparent and responsible attitude. "Laboratory leakage is highly unlikely" is an authoritative scientific conclusion drawn by a joint expert group of China and the World Health Organization based on on-site visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan and in-depth exchanges with relevant scientific researchers. It is accurately reflected in the joint traceability research report of China and the World Health Organization and has also been widely recognized by the international community and the scientific community.
Mao Ning emphasized that the United States should immediately stop politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing traceability issues, stop smearing and blaming other countries, stop pretending to be deaf and mute to its own doubts, respond to the reasonable concerns of the international community as soon as possible, actively share early suspected case data with the World Health Organization, publicly disclose the situation of Fort Detrick and biological laboratories established around the world, and give responsible explanations to people around the world.