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• Cooperating to trace COVID-19 origins shared responsibilities for countries

  ?"Cooperating on tracing the origins of the virus is everyone's responsibility," and such research should be conducted worldwide, China's Ambassador to Italy Li Junhua has written.

• US biggest saboteur to interfere WHO's independence

  A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday the United States is the biggest saboteur of the World Health Organization's ability to perform its functions independently and without interference.

• Swiss scientist: Chinese lab leak theory political in nature

  The accusation that the COVID-19 virus leaked from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan is "more political in nature," Didier Pittet, a leading infectious diseases expert at Geneva University Hospitals, has said.

• WHO members oppose politicization of COVID-19 origin tracing: media

  Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) agree that the COVID-19 origin tracing should not be politicized, Sputnik reported Friday citing Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program.

• Russian officials, experts say COVID-19 origin tracing should not be politicized

  A large number of Russian officials and experts have strongly opposed politicizing the COVID-19 origin tracing, highlighting the devastating effects the move could have on the global fight against the pandemic.

• 2nd phase of WHO COVID-19 origin tracing not approved by all members

  ?The World Health Organization's (WHO) plan for the second phase of studies into the origins of COVID-19 was put forward unilaterally by the WHO Secretariat without getting the approval of all member states, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Thursday.

• China blasts US for political manipulation of pandemic

  China on Wednesday blasted the United States for manipulating the COVID-19 pandemic for political purposes, noting the move is doomed to failure.

• US guilty of 3 sins in COVID-19 response, origin-tracing

  ?The United States is guilty of three sins in COVID-19 epidemic response and origin-tracing, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday.

• US scientists clarify signing Science letter not in favor of lab-leak hypothesis

  Two U.S. biology professors have clarified publicly that their signatures on a letter to the Science magazine in May over COVID-19 origin tracing should not be interpreted as support for the lab-leak hypothesis.

• Scientists, scholars say remove politics from virus debate

  Greater international cooperation on combating the COVID-19 pandemic is needed and less politicization of scientific issues, such as tracing the origin of the virus that causes the disease, according to Chinese scientists and scholars.

• US in wrong direction on anti-virus fight, warns Fauci

  The United States is heading "in the wrong direction" as the country scrambles to fight a new surge of COVID-19 cases because of the Delta variant and a large number of unvaccinated people, Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, has warned.

• Political virus also needs origin tracing: FM

  The novel coronavirus needs origin tracing, and so does the political virus, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Chengdu Sunday.

• China calls for tracing COVID-19 origin in multiple countries, regions

  China hopes that the World Health Organization will genuinely treat the COVID-19 origin-tracing work as a scientific issue, get rid of political interference, and actively and prudently promote the tracing work to be carried out continuously in multiple countries and regions around the globe.
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  China urges US to invite WHO experts to investigate Fort Detrick lab

  ?A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Monday urged the United States to adopt a transparent and responsible attitude and invite World Health Organization (WHO) experts to investigate Fort Detrick lab for coronavirus origin tracing as soon as possible.