China News Service, May 28. The 74th World Health Assembly was held a few days ago to discuss how to end the new crown epidemic and prevent future pandemics.

However, some political forces and media in the United States have started to instigate the issue of "virus traceability" and continue to advocate the "laboratory leak theory" without any basis.

This manipulation of politicizing scientific issues has cast a shadow over global cooperation in epidemic prevention.

On May 17, local time, passengers entered the station at Union Square Subway Station in New York City, USA.

German experts questioned: US media reports are based on "rumors"

　　On the day before the opening of the World Health Organization Conference, the Wall Street Journal quoted a report from the US intelligence agency during the Trump administration saying that in November 2019 before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, all three researchers from Wuhan Virus Research went to the hospital for treatment. .

The symptoms include the characteristics of the new crown and are no different from common seasonal diseases.

　　After the publication of this article, as the US representative at the World Health Assembly led the request for in-depth investigation of the source of the new crown virus, the "laboratory leak theory" once again became the focus of advocacy in the United States and other Western countries.

US President Biden announced on May 26 that intelligence agencies must complete an investigation report on the origin of the new crown virus within 90 days.

　　In an interview with German media, Professor Graub Lecht, a professor of biology at the Nature Research Center of the University of Hamburg, Germany, believes that the report of the "Wall Street Journal" is useless for scientific research.

Because the intelligence reports are secret in nature, it is difficult to say whether this report exists or not, and the relevant discussions are all based on "rumors."

　　Speaking of the speculation that the Wuhan virus researcher may be infected with the new crown virus, Graublecht believes that this statement is difficult to approve.

He said that even if everyone in the Wuhan Virus Study was ill in November 2019, it is still uncertain whether the patient has been infected with the new crown virus.

The symptoms of infection after being infected by the new coronavirus are not specific, and similar symptoms can also appear in other diseases.

　　He further elaborated that the traceability investigation results of the WHO expert team in Wuhan in January 2021 showed that no one was infected with the new coronavirus in Wuhan Institute of Virology in November 2019, and the blood antibody tests performed on them also proved this.

"Nature": Politicization of traceability is not good for global cooperation in fighting the epidemic

　　WHO experts have come to China many times to carry out international cooperation on traceability, and China has provided strong support and adhered to an open, transparent and cooperative attitude.

The WHO has issued a report in March 2021 stating that the new coronavirus is "very unlikely" to pass through laboratories.

　　However, only two months later, the United States began to deliberately hype the theory of "laboratory leaks". As the issue of politicization and traceability of various parties in the United States intensified, there have also been differences of views among scientists.

　　According to a report in "Nature" magazine, Canadian virologist Rasmussen said that even if the initial question about the "lab leak" was out of scientific discussion, it has changed in such a divided political environment.

Some aggressive supporters of "laboratory venting of drugs" criticized Rasmussen for this and launched a personal attack on him.

　　Some people worry that remarks surrounding the so-called "laboratory venting of drugs" will encourage cyberbullying and American hatred of Asians, and will also offend Chinese researchers who need to cooperate with them.

　　Global health policy analysts believe that the most important thing at present is that countries should work together to control the epidemic, including expanding vaccine distribution and reforming biosafety rules.

　　Glassman, a health expert at the Washington Center for Global Development, said that these measures require a broad consensus among major powers, and "confrontation will only make things worse."

　　The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the United States said on the 26th that if the scientific issue of the origin of the epidemic is politicized, it will not only be difficult to find the source of the virus, but it will also make the “political virus” spread and raging, making international cooperation in epidemic prevention difficult.

Zhao Lijian, spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

China: The US owes an explanation to the international community

　　China has been actively advancing the global fight against the epidemic and has provided urgently needed anti-epidemic materials to more than 150 countries and 13 international organizations. So far, it has supplied more than 280 billion masks, more than 3.4 billion protective clothing, and more than 4 billion test kits. .

China has also taken the lead in promising that vaccines are a global public product and has provided more than 300 million doses of vaccines to the world.

　　At the 74th World Health Assembly, representatives of many countries gave speeches thanking China for its anti-epidemic assistance.

Representatives from Mexico, Uganda, Niger and other countries stated that China has provided tremendous support in the fight against the epidemic in their own countries. Not only did they share the original gene sequence of the new coronavirus, they also promoted the new coronavirus vaccination in their respective countries.

　　On the 25th, the Chinese representative stated at the World Health Assembly that China supports scientists in conducting global traceability cooperation and calls on all parties to actively cooperate with the WHO in traceability work in an open and transparent manner.

　　In response to US President Biden’s order of the US intelligence agency to investigate whether the new crown virus came from a laboratory leak, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on the 27th that China’s "lab leak" theory is extremely unlikely and has been clearly recorded in the world. This is an authoritative, formal, and scientific conclusion in the research report of the WHO Joint Investigation Group.

　　He pointed out that some people in the United States have completely ignored facts and science, completely ignored the many doubts about their own traceability and the painful facts of their defeat in the fight against the epidemic, and repeatedly clamored for reinvestigation of China.

This fully shows that the United States does not care about facts and truths at all, nor is it interested in serious scientific tracing, but wants to use the epidemic to stigmatize and politically manipulate, and to blame.

　　Zhao Lijian mentioned that with more than 200 biological laboratories in the United States spreading around the world, Fort Detrick is full of suspicions. What secrets are there?

In July 2019, there was an unexplained respiratory disease in northern Virginia and a large-scale outbreak of "e-cigarette disease" in Wisconsin. What's the secret?

"When will the United States release detailed data and information on relevant cases to the international community? The United States owes the international community an explanation."