BEIJING – China fired back at the United States (US) on Sunday over allegations from the White House that Beijing withheld some information about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak from World Health Organization (WHO) investigators.
In a statement on Saturday, White House National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington had “deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigations were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them.”
China responded with a statement from its Washington Embassy that US had already “gravely damaged international cooperation on COVID-19” and was now “pointing fingers at other countries who have been faithfully supporting the WHO and at the WHO itself.”
China hopes US will “hold itself to the highest standards, take a serious, earnest, transparent, and responsible attitude, shoulder its rightful responsibility, support the WHO’s work with real actions and make due contribution to the international cooperation on COVID-19,” the statement said.(AP)
