China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. A delayed and heavily politicised visit by a WHO team of international experts went to Wuhan in January 2021 to produce a first phase report, which was written in conjunction with their Chinese counterparts. It failed to conclude how the virus began. On Thursday the WHO urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive its probe into the origins of the disease. China hit back, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu saying it has never rejected cooperation on tracing the origins of Covid-19, but rejects the politicisation of such a search, state media reported. “We oppose political tracing … and abandoning the joint report” issued after the WHO team’s Wuhan visit, Ma told reporters. “We support scientific tracing.” The joint report said the virus jumping from bats to humans via an intermediate animal was the most probable scenario, while a leak from Wuhan’s virology labs was “extremely unlikely”. Ma rejected suggestions of new lines of investigation. “The conclusions and recommendations of WHO and China joint report were recognised by the international community and the scientific community,” he said. “Future global traceability work should and can only be further carried out on the basis of this report, rather than starting a new one.” China is continuing to conduct “follow-up and supplementary” research into the origins of the novel coronavirus as specified in the joint report, Ma said. The WHO on Thursday called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of the pandemic and “to depoliticise the situation”. In the face of China’s reluctance to open up to outside investigators, experts are increasingly open to considering the theory that the virus might have leaked from a lab, once dismissed as a conspiracy propagated by the US far right. Even WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the initial probe into Wuhan’s virology labs had not gone far enough, while US President Joe Biden in May ordered a separate investigation into the virus origins from the US intelligence community. A WHO call last month for the investigation’s second stage to include audits of the Wuhan labs infuriated Beijing, with Vice Health Minister Zeng Yixin saying the plan showed “disrespect for common sense and arrogance towards science”. Meanwhile, Danish scientist Peter Ben Embarek, who led the international mission to Wuhan, said a lab employee infected while taking samples in the field falls under one of the likely hypotheses as to how the virus passed from bats to humans.
He told the Danish public channel TV2 that the suspect bats were not from the Wuhan region and the only people likely to have approached them were workers from the Wuhan labs.
Ben Embarek previously acknowledged in an interview with Science magazine that “politics was always in the room with us” during the Wuhan trip, which was mired in delays after China initially stalled approval for the international researchers’ entry. Nick Note: We all new who got here first in the west. We tracked this down from my “dream”. All the people siting at the table in my dream are either dead or not sen or heard from in over a year. China spliced the bat virus DNA in the Wuhan lab to infect humans. Wuhan will go down in history as the modern day Auschwitz. In this case instead of using syniad gas to exterminate millions the Chinese chose a virus to in the end kill billions. they designed a viral bio-weapon…. And when it accidentally escaped by infected workers shopping at the Wuhan market on their way home from work started this deadly plague spread. All thiose workers ended up in the emergenct room and dies and their bodies disappeared. A hero sused Dr. Li Wenliang realized that their was a new infections disease and spoke out. Here is what he got for his trouble,.
Here is the story (pretty accurate) from the authoritative scientific publication The Journal of Nuclear Medicine” Dr Li Covid story This is a man who deserves a Nobel prize….. In the greatest tradition of the medical profession he stood up for truth. The story is a spin job. When China realized the cat (after they tortured to death Dr Li) was out of the bag. They brought Dr Zhang to show they were doing something. This was to cover the fact that China not only genetically spliced the bat virus to infect humans but sent tour groups (paid for by the communist party) of infected people to every major city in the world. Why? Because they new the plauge would shut down the world economy and they did not want to be the only weakened country. It makes perfect sense if you understand China’s diabolical leadership. First economic leadership them military world demonetization. And this plague is a terrible thing to waste is their key to weakening western economies and political systems. And yes i believe they are isolating, and genetically splicing and releasing mutant strains. And i believe mankind’s only hope, only defense is to vaccinate its populations every 6 months from the ongoing attackes. Its a war we are in like it or not realize it or not. And to be clear here China allows SMALL outbreaks to pretend they are infected too. I want to be clear here the Chinese economy is back. The US will soon be in another even more devastating shutdown. The Chinnese are using internal quarantines to manipulate the global supply chains… See story about the China Ningbo shipping terminal shut down over one (1) Covid-19 infection. The third largest container terminal in the world.