Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning criticized the US Energy Department’s version that the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic was caused by a leak from a Chinese laboratory. release Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.
He stated that tracking the new coronavirus is a scientific issue that should not be politicized.
“A leak in the laboratory is extremely unlikely,” the diplomat said, a credible scientific conclusion reached by experts from China and the World Health Organization after visiting relevant laboratories in Wuhan and in-depth discussion with relevant researchers.
A State Department spokesperson also urged “to stop fueling the ‘lab leak’ debate and discrediting China”.
Former American newspaper The Wall Street Journal WroteThat the US Department said the most likely cause of the coronavirus pandemic was an unintentional leak from a Chinese laboratory.