China says it has been 'open and transparent' in the search for the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and dismissed United States criticism as politicising the issue. 9News
China had "shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing research", Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning Mao told reporters at a daily briefing.
"Politicising the issue of virus tracing will not smear China but will only damage the US's own credibility," Mao said, in response to complaints from US officials and members of Congress that China has not been entirely cooperative.This general view shows the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021, as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, visit.
Her comments came amid continuing questions about how the virus that has killed more than 6.8 million people worldwide first emerged.that the pandemic first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 began with the leak of a virus from a lab. The report hasn't been made public."There is just not an intelligence community consensus," John Kirby, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said on Monday.
A low confidence assessment generally means that the information obtained is not reliable enough or too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion. The latest assessment further adds to the divide in the US government over whether the COVID-19 pandemic began in China in 2019 as the result of a lab leak or whether it emerged naturally.
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