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US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burnssaid in a statement at a US Chamber of Commerce event that Washington should pressure Beijing to be more honest about origin pandemics
US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burnssaid in a statement at a US Chamber of Commerce event that Washington should pressure Beijing to be more honest about origin pandemics COVID-19reports Reuters.
Burns also urged the US government to put pressure on China to become more involved in the World Health Organization.WHO), and thus strengthen the health agency.
“And to be more honest about what happened three years ago in Wuhan with the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis,” Burns said, pointing to a Chinese city where the first human cases were reported in December 2019.
On February 26, the Wall Street Journal reported that US Department of Energy concluded that the pandemic likely resulted from drain in a Chinese lab. For his part, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, has argued that there are “differing views” within the intelligence community about the origin of the pandemic, Reuters reported.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in addition to the Department of Energy, there are four agencies that are questioning the origin of Covid-19 from natural transmissionwhile the other two agencies remain unresolved.
However, when asked at the event to comment on what was published by an American newspaper, the ambassador took up a report, together with WHO, which points to natural origin virus, not a lab leak.
On the other hand, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ningdismissed reports that the pandemic was caused by a leak of a pathogen from a Chinese laboratory, and that these theories are based not on science, but on political narrative which seeks to “defame China,” Argentinean Forbes reported.
“Some parties should stop repeating the narrativelab leak“Stop slandering China and stop politicizing the tracing issue,” the official said.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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