China urges certain WHO officials not become tool to politicize

The certain individuals from the WHO are urged not to become a tool for individual countries to politicize the origin tracing of COVID-19. The Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionShen Hongbing said at a news conference on Saturday.

Recently, some WHO officials and experts recklessly denied the joint studies results, which is totally against the spirit of science and is offensive to the scientists from all over the world who have participated in the early origin-tracing studies. After the first stage of joint research, China has continued to pool resources to carry out comprehensive scientific investigation and research, and shared related progress and conclusions with the international scientific community and scientists.

The results of the first phase joint study were further confirmed by numerous findings, he said. He added it is hoped that the scientific community will follow a scientific attitude; keep scientists as the main body of the origin-tracing study; and strengthen exchanges, cooperation and information sharing".