Chinanews, July 22, "So far, none of the staff and graduate students of Wuhan Institute of Virology has been infected with the new coronavirus." Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, pointed out today.

　　The Information Office of the State Council held a press conference today to introduce the traceability of the new crown virus.

Zeng Yixin made the above statement when answering related questions from reporters.

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　　"To be honest, when I first saw the WHO's second phase traceability plan, I was very surprised. Because in this plan, the hypothesis of'China's violation of laboratory procedures causing virus leakage' was one of the research priorities. From this point, I can feel the disrespect for common sense and the arrogant attitude towards science revealed in this plan.” In response to the issue of the second phase of the virus traceability plan released by the WHO on July 15 Zeng Yixin said, first of all, some rumors about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, "For example, three employees contracted the disease, for example, the Wuhan Institute of Virology carried out the new crown virus function gain experiment, which is the Gain of function experiment. These have been clarified long ago. It's purely a rumor."

　　"Secondly, the most recent sequence of the coronavirus and the new coronavirus in the bat specimens collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology is RaTG-13, which has only 96.2% homology." Zeng Yixin pointed out that some people once considered whether the new coronavirus is a man-made virus or not. , Is there such a possibility.

"There used to be an Indian scholar, because he discovered that there was a part of the sequence in the new coronavirus, which was similar to HIV, so he speculated that the new coronavirus might be man-made. He wrote this as a paper, but this paper is in anticipation. At the printing stage, it was criticized by international colleagues. Later, the author took the initiative to retract the manuscript. Because there are similar sequences in many other viruses, we cannot use this to infer that the new coronavirus is artificial. There will be more later. Experts in, conducted an in-depth analysis and believed that the new coronavirus has no traces of artificial modification. We comrades doing genetic engineering know that the artificial modification of the virus will definitely leave traces. The new coronavirus does not have such traces, so the possibility of artificial viruses is fundamentally denied ."

　　Zeng Yixin emphasized that so far, none of the staff and graduate students of Wuhan Institute of Virology has been infected with the new coronavirus.

Wuhan Institute of Virology has not conducted research on the benefits of coronavirus, and there is no so-called man-made virus.

"So where did the virus leak due to violation of laboratory procedures? So this formulation violates common sense and violates the laws of science. It is particularly important that the WHO expert team personally went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct on-site investigations and found that the virus The extremely unlikely conclusions leaked by the laboratory. The experts are all very authoritative and experienced in various fields, and they are all experts carefully selected by the WHO. Therefore, we should respect their conclusions. So this time the world The so-called second-stage traceability plan announced by the WHO, in some respects, it can be said that it neither respects common sense, but also violates science. It is impossible for us to accept such a traceability plan."

　　Zeng Yixin pointed out that the traceability of the new coronavirus must be a scientific issue, and the Chinese government has always supported scientific traceability of the virus.

However, we are opposed to politicizing the traceability work. We believe that the second phase of virus traceability should be extended on the basis of the first phase of virus traceability, and resolution WHA73.1 should be used as a guide, after full discussion and consultation by member states.

We have already carried out the first phase of virus traceability, especially if we have reached a clear conclusion, we should not repeat it.

On the basis of full and extensive consultations among member states, we should promote early case search, molecular epidemiology, and animal (intermediate) host traceability in multiple countries and regions around the world.

　　"Our practice of traceability research in the first phase of the cooperation between WHO and China has fully proved that the scientific and reasonable working method is carried out after the WHO and the host country have fully agreed on traceability research. This not only reflects the respect for sovereign countries. , Which is more conducive to promoting the orderly, smooth, high-quality, and high-efficiency traceability work."

　　Zeng Yixin said that we should summarize and absorb the successful practice experience of the first stage, and carry out work on this basis.

Therefore, on July 4th, our Chinese expert group put forward the Chinese proposal for the second phase of traceability to the World Health Organization and communicated with the World Health Organization experts.

"This draft proposal reflects our considerations and core views. We hope that the WHO can seriously consider the considerations and suggestions put forward by Chinese experts, truly treat the traceability of the new coronavirus as a scientific issue, get rid of political interference, and actively and steadily promote it. To continue to carry out traceability in many countries and regions around the world, it is necessary to strengthen the cooperation and exchanges of traceability research between countries, to find the most likely source of the virus as soon as possible, and to do our best to prevent similar epidemics from recurring."

　　"What is the purpose of our traceability? It is to find out the source of the virus, and then we can take effective measures to prevent similar epidemics from recurring. Therefore, we must promote this work in accordance with scientific principles and scientific rules. This is the Chinese government's Attitude." Zeng Yixin said.