BEIJING: The report made by the US intelligence community on the origins of COVID-19 is politicized, unscientific, and unreliable, and Washington is obsessed with political manipulations that can damage the global efforts in fighting the pandemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report which elaborates on two possible origins of coronavirus, the natural and the laboratory-associated ones. The US intelligence community considers both options plausible, but does not believe that COVID-19 was developed as a biological weapon, the report said.<\/p>\n
“In August, when the US special services published a brief version of a declassified report on the so-called research of COVID-19 origin, the Chinese side strongly opposed it.<\/p>\n
The lies repeated thousand times still remain lies,” the diplomat said, as quoted by the foreign ministry.<\/p>\n
The spokesman added that the fact that the special services were engaged in the research proves that the issue is politicized.<\/p>\n
“It can do more harm to the global scientific community in the field of COVID-19 origin research, undermine the international cooperation in fighting with the pandemic, and lead to more human casualties,” the official said.<\/p>\n
In spring 2021, the World Health Organization issued a full report on COVID-19 origin, stating that the leak from laboratory is an unlikely origin of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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