Demands for an independent international investigation of the emergence of Corona have escalated ... China rejects and regards it as an attempt to politicize the pandemic

China has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into how the emerging Corona virus (Covid-19) has arisen. Chinese television quoted Beijing's ambassador to London, Liu Qiaoming, as saying that calls for the investigation hid political motives, and would disperse China's efforts in fighting the epidemic.

In a separate interview with the BBC, the official said the Chinese embassy in the British capital Chen Wen, "The calls for the investigations are politically motivated, we are currently fighting the virus and focusing all our efforts on this war," and pointed out that there is more than one novel about the origin of the virus, and that All of them are very dangerous.

Mutual accusations have been made between China and the United States about the origin of the virus, which gained a new pace on March 6, when Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said that the appearance of the Corona virus in China does not mean that it originates in China.

And American media recently claimed that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, where the virus first appeared, while US President Donald Trump attacked Beijing, accusing it of being responsible for the spread of the epidemic because of the way it dealt with it.

The US state of Missouri has also filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China for hiding information and not doing enough to prevent the virus from spreading.

In the context, the Australian government said last Wednesday that Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked for support to open an international investigation into this pandemic, in telephone calls with US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Australia's bid to start an independent review of the origin of the virus, its outbreak and WHO's response to it, has sparked sharp criticism from China, at which time Beijing accused Australian lawmakers of receiving guidance from the United States.

The virus first appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei Province, and soon spread to all parts of the world.

As of Saturday evening, the number of coronavirus deaths exceeded two hundred thousand worldwide, while the number of infected people reached more than 2.86 million, of whom nearly 773 thousand people recovered.