WASHINGTON – Politicizing the origins of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China’s United States (US) embassy said after President Joe Biden ordered a review of intelligence about where the virus emerged.
“Some political forces have been fixated on political manipulation and (the) blame game,” the embassy said on Wednesday.
As the World Health Organization will begin a second phase of studies to the origins of COVID-19, China was under pressure to give investigators more access amid allegations that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.
China repeatedly denied the lab was responsible, saying US and other countries were trying to distract from their own failures to contain the virus.(Reuters)
