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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, China, defending the vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity, has provided information to the World Health Organization and affected countries as soon as possible, the report said. genome sequence as early as possible, shared control and processing experience with the world wholeheartedly, and delivered over 800 million doses of vaccine to over 100 countries, making a major contribution to protecting global public health .
At the same time, China attaches great importance to the search for the origin of the virus, has actively participated in the global cooperation in the search for the origin with an open and science-based attitude, and has taken the initiative to collaborate with WHO on research of global origin. Since last year, China has twice invited WHO experts to China to research the origin. In particular, leading experts from 10 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, formed a joint expert team with their Chinese counterparts earlier this year. They conducted a 28-day joint research in China and concluded that the hypothesis of a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely. They also recommended further research on earlier cases around the world and further study of the role of the cold chain and frozen foods in viral transmission. These important conclusions were drawn on the basis of WHO procedures and rigorous scientific methodology. They are authoritative and are based on science. They should be recognized, respected and supported and should be the basis for the next phase of global origin research. Chinese experts also took the initiative to submit China’s proposal for the second phase of origin tracing to the WHO, calling for the conduct of phase II origin tracing in several countries and regions. based on the first phase of the joint study convened by WHO. China’s open and transparent attitude on origin tracing has been highly appreciated by international experts.
The search for the origin is a matter of science. It should and can only be done by scientists. Unfortunately, under the political manipulation of individual countries, the search for origin has been politicized and used as a tool to shift responsibilities and deflect contradictions. They attempt to achieve the political goal of vilifying and suppressing other countries by violating scientific common sense, fabricating baseless intelligence information, concocting reports entirely based on lies, sensationalizing what they want. ‘the so-called “laboratory leak theory” is based on the presumption of guilt, and even interfering with the WHO to carry out its functions independently. These despicable acts have severely poisoned the scientific and objective atmosphere of origin research and sabotaged international cooperation in the fight against COVID-19.
“Dark clouds cannot block the sun”. In recent days, nearly 80 countries have recently expressed their support for the WHO-China joint study report and their opposition to the politicization of origin research by sending letters to the WHO Director-General and publishing diplomatic statements or notes. More than 30 countries expressed their opposition or reservation on phase II of the WHO Secretariat. Political parties, groups, experts, academics and the media in many countries have expressed their opposition to politicizing origin research and maintaining a scientific approach in different ways. More than 300 political parties, social organizations and think tanks from more than 100 countries and regions of the world have submitted a joint statement to the WHO Secretariat, calling on the WHO to conduct the study on the search for the origin of COVID-19 in an objective, fair and firm manner. oppose the politicization of the search for origin. This fully shows that political manipulation cannot blur the eyes of the world, and the voice of fairness and justice will never be stifled.
Right now, the world is facing the impact of the Delta variant and the fight against the pandemic is reaching a crucial stage. China stands ready to work with Ghana and other African countries to maintain scientific origin research, oppose political manipulation by politicizing the pandemic, stigmatizing the virus, and using origin research as a tool, to maintain cooperation while opposing confrontation. We must defeat not only the coronavirus, but also the political virus to make a positive contribution to the final victory against COVID-19.
By HE Lu Kun, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana
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