China regretted this Sunday being the object of “defamation” after US organizations concluded that the coronavirus “most likely” was caused by a leak in a Chinese laboratory.
“The tracing of the origins of the covid is a scientific matter and should not be politicized. The parties involved must stop inflating the theory of laboratory leaks and smearing China,” Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press conference.
The Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak, according to a classified intelligence report https://t.co/0fjsXZHSt9
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 27, 2023
Mao made this statement on account of the conclusions of a report by the United States Department of Energy, which joined other federal agencies such as the FBI to conclude that COVID-19 “most likely” originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory. , as collected on Sunday The Wall Street Journal.
The New York newspaper pointed out that the conclusion of the Department of Energy is the result of reading new data and considers this theory significant because this agency oversees a network of 17 US national laboratories, some of which carry out advanced biological research.
However, the Journal indicates that the Department of Energy makes this assertion with “low confidence”, while when the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021 it described its level of confidence as “moderate”, notes the agency. efe.
US President Joe Biden asked the intelligence community at the beginning of his term, in May 2021, to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
China opposes “any type of political manipulation” about the origin of COVID-19, and has repeatedly lashed out at Washington following reports from its intelligence services that, despite failing to reach a consensus on the origin of the virus, They do not rule out that it was the product of an accident in a laboratory.
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Officials from the Asian country refer to the report that the World Health Organization (WHO) published in March 2021 after visiting the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first cases of coronavirus began to spread in 2019.
In that report, the researchers left open four hypotheses about the origin of the pandemic, but stated that many more studies were needed to reach a definitive conclusion.
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