“We did not receive information confirming the laboratory origin of the virus. This is a speculative statement. If the US has this information, they themselves must decide when and how to share it, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Ryan, the organization intends to work on the basis of the information that it has available at the moment. So far, all WHO data suggests that we are talking about the natural origin of the virus.

“Very often political problems arise. But at the center of all our efforts should be science, scientists. We must conduct scientific investigations, ”he added.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the American side has enough evidence that the Chinese Communist Party "did everything to hide the situation with the spread of coronavirus."