(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Chinese Ambassador to Canada wrote: Traceability of the New Coronavirus should not be a political tool
China News Service, Toronto, August 16. Cong Peiwu, the Chinese ambassador to Canada, published a signed article entitled "The Traceability of the New Coronavirus Should Not Be a Political Tool" in the Canadian mainstream media "Capitol Hill Times" on August 16, stating that the traceability of the virus is serious Scientific issues should not be manipulated by politics. They should be carried out with scientists as the main body and evidence-based.
The article said that the current global situation of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still severe, and virus mutation and vaccination have become the focus of attention.
At the same time, virus traceability is also worthy of attention.
The purpose of tracing is to clarify the source of the virus, so that effective measures can be taken to prevent similar epidemics from recurring.
According to previous studies on virus tracing, it is one-sided to trace the source only from the "outbreak point" of virus transmission.
At present, the international community has more and more reports of new crown cases in many places around the world in the second half of 2019.
All these prove that it is necessary to carry out multi-point, multi-directional and three-dimensional traceability globally.
The article said that China has always participated in international traceability cooperation with an open attitude.
After the outbreak, China took the lead in conducting virus traceability research cooperation with WHO, and has twice invited WHO experts to China for joint traceability research.
At the beginning of this year, 17 international experts from 10 countries including the United States, Britain, Japan and Australia independently selected by WHO went to China to form a joint expert group with Chinese experts to carry out a 28-day field study in Wuhan.
The experts went to all the places they wanted to go and met all the people who wanted to meet. In the China-WHO Joint Research Report on the Traceability of the New Coronavirus, they clearly came to the scientific conclusion that “laboratory leaks are extremely unlikely” and put forward the Globally, continue to search for possible early cases and other important suggestions.
The article pointed out that for some time, some American politicians have continuously increased their political manipulation of virus traceability. From openly calling the virus “Wuhan virus” last year to advocating “intelligence traceability”, they have been trying to politicize and stigmatize the virus. , Traceability tooling.
The article also pointed out that not long ago, the WHO Secretariat unilaterally proposed the second phase of the WHO traceability plan, taking the hypothesis of "China's violation of laboratory procedures causing virus leakage" as one of the research priorities.
This not only deviated from the requirements of the 73rd World Health Assembly resolution, but also ignored the conclusions and recommendations of the first phase of the joint research report.
The China-WHO traceability joint research report has drawn conclusions and recommendations recognized by the international community and the scientific community, which must be respected and implemented by all parties including the WHO.
In the future, global traceability work should and can only be carried out on this basis, rather than starting anew.
More than 70 countries have opposed the politicization of traceability issues by writing to the Director-General of WHO, issuing statements, and notes, and supported the China-WHO joint research report on traceability.
The article emphasizes that China is willing to uphold the spirit of openness, transparency, science, and cooperation, and continue to support and participate in global traceability cooperation, including actively implementing the relevant work recommendations of the China-WHO traceability joint research report, and promoting follow-up supplements involving China in the report. Sexual research.
At the same time, it is hoped that the WHO will uphold the spirit of science, professionalism, and objectivity, and work with the international community to jointly resist the countercurrent that politicizes the traceability issue, actively and steadily promote the continuous traceability in multiple countries and regions around the world, and jointly maintain a good global anti-epidemic cooperation. Atmosphere.
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