Chinanews.com, Beijing, June 28 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) Regarding a number of foreign experts' comments that the new crown virus is not a "laboratory leak", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded at a regular press conference on the 28th that facts have repeatedly proved that, Some people in the United States have clamored for the "Wuhan laboratory leaked the new crown virus", which has no factual basis at all.
A reporter asked a question. According to reports, Danielle Anderson, an assistant professor at the Duke-National University School of Medicine in Singapore who had worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, recently stated that she has described the laboratory in some media outside China and is toxic to scientists. Shocked by the attack, she was convinced that the virus was not deliberately created to infect humans, nor was it deliberately released.
What is China's comment?
In this regard, Wang Wenbin said that China has repeatedly emphasized that virus traceability is a scientific issue and should not be politicized.
"Including the Assistant Professor Anderson you mentioned, many scientists in the international community who uphold scientific, rational, and objective positions have clearly opposed the politicization of traceability by some people in the United States."
"Ms. Anderson said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has strict agreements and requirements, and the procedures for entering and exiting the laboratory are carefully designed and very complicated." Wang Wenbin pointed out that Ms. Anderson also reported on the "Wall Street Journal" about the Wuhan Institute of Virology III. Reports that a researcher was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in November 2019 said that by the end of 2019, no one she knew at the Wuhan Institute had fallen ill.
"In addition, we have also noticed that Massimo Galli, director of the infectious disease department of the Sacco Hospital in Milan, Italy, recently stated in the Italian House of Representatives Social Affairs Committee that the new crown virus is'an unknown virus with no signs of genetic engineering.' From a scientific point of view, the'laboratory leak theory' has no scientific basis at all." Wang Wenbin pointed out that Gali and three other Italian experts-Professor Chicozi of the University of Biomedical Sciences in Rome, and the Institute of Virology of St. Matthew General Hospital in Pavia The head of the laboratory, Baldanti, and Porido, an expert at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases of Lazaros Palani, believe that "99% of the time the spread of the virus is a natural phenomenon."
Wang Wenbin pointed out that facts have repeatedly proved that the "Wuhan laboratory leaked the new crown virus" that some people in the United States clamored has no basis in fact. We once again urge the United States to respect facts and science, immediately stop politicizing the traceability, and promptly make a responsible account of the Fort Detrick base that the international community is concerned about and the more than 200 biological laboratories established by the United States around the world, and Invite WHO experts to go to the United States to conduct traceability research. (Finish)