China rebuffs WHO’s terms for further COVID-19 origins study; Beijing pushes back
July 22, 2021 | International
A top Chinese official lashed out Thursday at plans for a second-phase study of whether the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan instead of developing in nature.
“The plan disregards common sense and defies science,” Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the Chinese National Health Commission, said at a press conference in Beijing.
A joint investigation by the World Health Organization and China has been faulted for paying little heed to the possibility a pathogen escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducts high-level research into coronaviruses found in China….
(Excerpts from the Washington Times)
