China News Agency, Johannesburg, July 28 (Reporter Wang Xi) Many politicians and people in the scientific community in South Africa have recently expressed their views, condemning the United States for politicizing the traceability of the new crown virus, calling on the international social sciences to trace the source and cooperate in the fight against the epidemic, and believe that the WHO An investigation should be conducted at the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory in the United States.

　　In an interview with Chinese media on the 28th, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Africa, Sukraal, said that it is obviously wrong to politicize the traceability of the new crown virus, especially when the current epidemic is still raging, countries should cooperate to deal with the epidemic.

　　Sukraal said that the epidemic situation around the world is still serious, and the most important task at the moment is to allow developing countries, especially African countries, to obtain a sufficient amount of new crown pneumonia vaccine to prevent the continued spread of the epidemic.

He pointed out that in the past year or so, countries or regions in the world have been severely affected by the epidemic.

Therefore, countries or regions in the world should cooperate extensively in response to the epidemic, rather than politicizing it.

　　Sukraal emphasized that South Africa opposes the politicization of the traceability of the new crown virus and all "vaccine nationalism" and will eliminate the occurrence of "vaccine apartheid" caused by "vaccine nationalism".

　　"We must applaud for China." He pointed out that as a country severely affected by the new crown pneumonia pandemic, China not only commends the world for fighting the epidemic, but also attaches importance to sharing anti-epidemic experience with developing countries, especially African countries. And to provide urgently needed medical supplies to African countries, including South Africa, to help these countries or regions fight the epidemic together.

　　Professor Salim Karim, a well-known South African epidemiologist and former chairman of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic, also opposes the politicization of the origin of the new crown virus.

He emphasized that the international community should treat the tracing of the new crown virus in a scientific, objective and fair manner, and oppose the politicization of the tracing of the new crown virus.

"Now is not the time to pose political stances and dictate to other countries, but to use wisdom to gather scientific evidence."

　　Karim also pointed out that he welcomes the conditional emergency use of China's Kexing vaccine in South Africa. The approval of Kexing vaccine in South Africa shows its high-quality, safe and effective quality.

　　On July 22, the South African Communist Party, a member of the South African ruling coalition, issued a statement on its official website, condemning the United States for politicizing the issue of the origin of the new crown virus.

The statement pointed out that the traceability of the new coronavirus is essentially a scientific issue, and scientific cooperation is essential.

South Africa has condemned attempts to politicize scientific research, including naming the virus based on its geographic location, or attacking scientific research because it involves certain countries.

The international community should treat the issue of virus traceability in a scientific, objective, fair and rigorous spirit and promote global anti-epidemic cooperation.

　　Anwar Adams, chairman of the South African Democratic Independence Party and Cape Town City Councillor, published a commentary in the local mainstream media on the 27th entitled "Politicization Is Harmful to International Anti-epidemic Cooperation."

He criticized some people in the United States for politicizing the traceability of the virus, and believed that the WHO should consider a traceability investigation of the Fort Detrick Biolab in the United States.

　　He pointed out that the world is struggling to fight the epidemic.

However, just as other countries insisted on fighting the epidemic in a scientific way, some people in the United States insisted on politicizing the new crown virus. This attempt is particularly obvious in terms of virus traceability.

The international expert group on the traceability of the novel coronavirus that visited China at the beginning of this year suggested that traceability research should also be extended to other places outside of China in the future.

Experts from many countries have voiced that they should conduct a traceability investigation of the United States and the Fort Detrick Biolab.

The laboratory was once a site of the US Army Institute of Infectious Diseases Medicine, and it was suddenly closed in July 2019.

　　He emphasized that Washington's politicization of science, continued politicization of the virus' origins, public opinion attacks on China, and the performance of individual politicians all point to a common fact: the United States has something to hide from the world.

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