"We hope that the US can adopt a scientific and cooperative attitude like China and invite WHO experts to the US to carry out research on tracing virus origins," Wang told a daily press briefing, in response to a question about a US expert demanding the release of the medical records of nine people who allegedly became ill in November 2019 in China, CGTN reported.
Wang said reports are emerging of COVID-19 being found at multiple locations around the world in the second half of 2019, and added doubts around the Fort Detrick lab and the real purpose of the over 200 US biological laboratories are still causing international attention.
"The US should explain that as soon as possible and make due contributions to mankind's victory over the pandemic and better respond to public health emergencies in the future," he continued.
China warned on Monday the United States attempts to politicize the COVID-19 origins study have seriously undermined international cooperation and created difficulties and obstacles for fighting the virus and saving lives worldwide.
In late May, Beijing once again announced Washington should invite WHO experts to look into two mysterious illnesses that occurred in the US in 2019 instead of questioning the WHO's report on COVID-19 origin tracing.
"When will the US elaborate on the unexplained respiratory disease in Northern Virginia in July 2019 and illnesses related to e-cigarette use in Wisconsin?" Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian asked after the US called for further investigation of COVID-19's origins.
"Does the US have the will and courage to let WHO experts onto its soil to investigate?" he stated.
The comments comes after US President Joe Biden said that he was giving intelligence agencies 90 days to pinpoint the origins of COVID-19. Biden added his administration would continue to push China to “participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation and to provide access to all relevant data and evidence”.
The theory that the COVID-19 might have originated from a secretive biological lab in Wuhan emerged shortly after the beginning of the pandemic. No actual evidence has ever been produced to support such claims.
An earlier report from the WHO after a mission in January suggested that early cases in Wuhan were believed to have been acquired from “a zoonotic source as many reported visiting or working in the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market”. However, pinpointing the source was not possible.
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