China today accused the US of “not having credibility” after the director of the US Federal Police (FBI) said on Tuesday that the pandemic was “probably” caused by a leak in a Wuhan laboratory.
China’s Foreign Affairs spokeswoman, Mao Ning, reiterated this Friday that the US “has no credibility” to say that the covid was caused by a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan and that this possibility is “extremely unlikely”.
“It is the scientific conclusion reached by the group of Chinese experts and the World Health Organization (WHO) after visiting the Chinese city of Wuhan,” he said.
According to Mao, the WHO report was “recognized by the international and scientific community”.
“The record of US intelligence agencies is littered with fraud and deception. The conclusions they draw have no credibility. The United States goes back to this theory from the lab, but this does not discredit China, it just further reduces its own credibility,” he said.
“America must respect science and facts, cooperate with WHO, invite international experts to carry out traceability investigations in their own country and share the results with the international community”, he asserted.
China insists on opposing “any type of political manipulation” about the origin of the covid, and has repeatedly lashed out at Washington following reports from its intelligence services that, despite not reaching a consensus on the origin of the virus, They do not rule out that it was the product of an accident in a laboratory.
The officials of the Asian country refer to the report that the World Health Organization (WHO) published in March 2021 after visiting Wuhan, where the first cases of covid began to spread in 2019.
In that report, the researchers left open four hypotheses about the origin of the pandemic, but stated that many more studies were needed to reach a definitive conclusion.