CHINA has urged World Health Organization (WHO) officials to return to science and fairness and not to be subject to or willing to become a tool of politicization of certain countries, after some in the international organization smeared China for lacking transparency in sharing data about the coronavirus' origins. Using twisted and incomplete pieces of evidence to slander China on the origins of Covid-19 will only undermine the international body's credibility and impair investigations on the virus, said experts.
An epidemiologist close to China's Covid-19 origins-tracing task group told the Global Times that next stage of origins-tracing should concentrate on animals who are more prone to carry coronaviruses, such as bats. China has done abundant work on investigating virus-carrying animals for years, and now the onus falls on other countries who could be linked to the virus to undertake similar investigations, to hopefully shed light on where the virus came from.
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