Chinanews.com, Beijing, June 17 (Reporter Li Jingze) Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently rejected the "Wuhan laboratory leak theory" of the new crown virus in an interview with the media.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on the 17th that her questioning was sonorous and powerful.
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian.
Photo by Xue Wei
Recently, some people in the US continue to speculate that the new coronavirus was leaked by the Wuhan laboratory.
Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, accepted an interview with a reporter from the New York Times on the 14th to refute the false accusations made by some people in the United States.
In this regard, Zhao Lijian said that on the 14th, Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, made it clear in an interview with the media that the "Wuhan laboratory leak theory" of the new crown virus was groundless.
The World Health Organization released the China-WHO Joint Expert Group Traceability Research Report in March, which clarified the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that the virus leaked from the laboratory.
This report is co-written by more than 30 top experts in various fields around the world. It is widely representative and highly professional.
Regrettably, some people in the U.S. ignored the joint traceability research report and clamored for the "laboratory leak theory" of the new coronavirus, politicizing the traceability.
"This is a great offense to the traceability research led by the World Health Organization, a serious blasphemy of scientists and the spirit of science, and a major destruction of the international community's united efforts to fight the epidemic."
Zhao Lijian pointed out that if the United States is truly transparent and responsible, it should adopt an open attitude like China and immediately invite international experts to conduct detailed investigations in places such as Fort Detrick in the United States.
He said that recently, in an interview with the media, Ju Liya, a doctor of immunology at the Pasteur Institute in France, also emphasized that the source of the virus is not artificial, but rigorous scientific research.
The first discovery of the gene sequence of the new coronavirus by Chinese scientists does not mean that Wuhan is the source of the new coronavirus, nor can it be used to infer that the virus was made by Chinese scientists.
"If it is said that he was accused of being the source of the new crown because he first published a high-quality virus sequence, then Professor Montanezh, who was the first to discover HIV, should be the chief culprit of AIDS in the world, not the Nobel Prize winner in medicine; the discovery of bacteria Mr. Pasteur should be the person in charge of the global pathogenic bacteria. In contrast, the Wuhan team should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for New Crown Research, rather than being blamed." Zhao Lijian said.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that since last year, the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has accepted many media interviews, including in-depth interviews by Reuters, Science Magazine, and NBC and other overseas media. They have repeatedly emphasized the effects of the new crown virus. It is not made by hand, and it is not leaked in the laboratory. Shi Zhengli pointedly said that the issue of virus traceability has obviously been politicized by the West. The question she issued was sonorous: how can one provide evidence for something without evidence? Why does the world continue to pour dirty water on an innocent scientist? (Finish)