The World Health Organization has called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and “to depoliticize the situation.”
“WHO reiterates that the search for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is not and should not be an exercise in attributing blame, finger-pointing or political point-scoring,” it said in a statement on Thursday.
China has never rejected cooperation on tracing the origins of COVID-19 but rejects the politicization of such a search, state media quoted the country’s vice foreign minister as saying.
China is continuing to conduct “follow-up and supplementary” research into the origins of the novel coronavirus as specified in a joint report with the World Health Organization (WHO) released earlier this year, said Ma Zhaoxu, according to Xinhua.
Photo: Part of mural on theme of coronavirus vaccination at Mauer park in Berlin, Germany. EPA-EFE/FILIP SINGER
