Various Chinese state media
to have been carrying reports
in in recent days indicating that a series of food products imported from different countries, including a shipment of fish from
India, it was found that
to have traces of COVID-19 claiming that the virus
may
to have entered China through foreign routes.
When asked if that is also China’s official view, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a press conference here that “although China was the first to report
coronavirus but it doesn’t necessarily mean that China is where the virus
originated”.
“So we believe that the origin process is a complex scientific issue that requires joint efforts in the COVID-19 cooperation of the scientific community around the world. Only then can we protect ourselves against future risks because origin tracing is an evolving and sustained process that involves many countries and regions, ”he said.
His answer came when the World Health Organization (WHO) team to investigate the origin of the virus is yet to arrive.
in China, even though Beijing has not yet given a timeline.
Many experts see the theory as Beijing’s latest effort to spread blame outside its borders.
An expert from the University of Glasgow, David Robertson, called the Chinese Academy of Sciences team’s argument “flawed,” according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
He said it “added nothing” to his understanding of Covid and that the Chinese approach was “inherently biased.”
From the
coronavirus cases arising
in Wuhan
in December of last year before turning into a global pandemic with a worldwide death toll exceeding 1.4 million.
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