China says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins

“Politicizing the issue of virus tracing will not smear China but will only damage the U.S.’s own credibility,” Mao said.

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February 28, 2023 - 4:41 PM

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday said it has been “open and transparent” in the search for the origins of COVID-19, after questions about how the pandemic began received new attention.

Most recently, the U.S. Department of Energy assessed with “low confidence” that the pandemic that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 began with the leak of a virus from a lab. The report hasn’t been made public.

China had “shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing…

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