Ministry of Foreign Affairs： Tracing the source of the virus should rely on scientific methods rather than political manipulation.

　　On June 1, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin held a regular press conference. A reporter asked questions. Recently, some politicians in the United States claimed that Covid-19 leaked from the laboratory and asked for an investigation into China. What’s your comment?

　　Wang Wenbin said that China firmly opposes the politicization of the source of the virus by some politicians in the United States.

　　"Why these people in the absence of any evidence, repeatedly pestering virus leaked from China laboratory? To put it bluntly, it is necessary to shirk the responsibility of the United States for its own failure in fighting the epidemic and find another excuse to suppress and curb the development of China. But it turns out that ‘ Swing the pot ’ Blaming this trick is harmful to the United States itself, and it is the life and health of the American people that is damaged. Politicizing the traceability will only interfere with the destruction of international anti-epidemic issues and will be universally opposed by the international community. " Wang Wenbin said.

　　Wang Wenbin pointed out that many international experts and scholars have recently questioned and criticized the politicization of traceability in the United States.

　　Dwyer, an Australian scientist who is a member of the WHO expert group, said that there is no evidence to prove that Covid-19 leaked from the laboratory. Dassac, a member of the expert group and an American scholar, said that he and other scholars who came to Wuhan for traceability research have published a large number of sufficient data to prove that the virus is most likely to come from nature, and the possibility of coming from the laboratory is almost nonexistent. The so-called intelligence report in the United States is political and not scientific.

　　Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, said that the media regards the conspiracy theory leaked from the laboratory as a research direction that needs to be taken seriously, just as it is absurd to regard the rumor that "climate change does not exist" as a theory that should be taken seriously in the topic of climate change. Higl, an American popular science writer, said that conspiracy theories leaked from laboratories have a market because they seek comfort from them, especially those politicians who screwed up the epidemic prevention work.

　　Wang Wenbin emphasized that traceability is a scientific issue. On this issue concerning human health and safety, we should uphold the initial intention of saving lives and better coping with similar public health crises in the future. We should take the road of unity and cooperation instead of provoking division and confrontation, and rely on scientific methods instead of political manipulation. Politicizing the source of the virus is immoral and unpopular, and will only lead to failure. (CCTV reporter Huang Huixin Yang Hongyang)