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ROME - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday that an objective, scientific, and responsible attitude should be adopted for tracing the origins of COVID-19.
OTTAWA - The theory that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was created in a lab remains unlikely, a Canadian virologist has said in a recent episode of CANADALAND podcasts.
MOSCOW - A new French study has dismissed a cave in Mojiang County, Southwest China's Yunnan province as an origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
LOS ANGELES - Despite mounting evidence that the COVID-19 reached humans through natural pathways, some mainstream US media organizations still pushed pseudoscience on the virus' origins, said an article in the Los Angeles Times.
In his article published on Wednesday in the Tanzanian newspaper The Citizen, Humphrey Moshi, professor of economics and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, said the United States using its intelligence services to investigate the origins of the coronavirus has resulted in stigmatization, scapegoating, finger pointing and misconception due to "the high-level politicization of the exercise." (Read more)
As for COVID-19 origins-tracing, "it is actually the US that is not being transparent, responsible and cooperative on this issue," Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Xiao Qian wrote in a recent editorial in the Jakarta Post.(Read more)
Raphael Tuju, secretary-general of Kenya's ruling Jubilee Party, said any attempt to investigate the origins of the virus should be informed by scientific analysis and data as opposed to partisan geopolitics. (Read more)
A study of big data and epidemic models indicates with 50 percent probability that the first COVID-19 infection in the United States may have occurred between August and October 2019, and the earliest possible case was on April 26, 2019, in Rhode Island, according to a preprint of a study published on Wednesday.
The US intelligence agency's report on the origins of COVID-19 is misleading and can be cited as a showcase for politicizing scientific issues, a senior Ethiopian ruling party official has said.
More Asian countries are voicing their opposition to efforts by some outside the region to politicize studies into the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19. And influential figures in those countries have joined in the condemnation, while also calling for stepped-up efforts against the pandemic.
More Asian countries are voicing their opposition to efforts by some outside the region to politicize studies into the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19. And influential figures in those countries have joined in the condemnation, while also calling for stepped-up efforts against the pandemic.
Experts from around the world say politically-driven attempts by the United States and its allies regarding COVID-19 origins tracing are hindering global efforts to fight the disease.
Experts from around the world say politically-driven attempts by the United States and its allies regarding COVID-19 origins tracing are hindering global efforts to fight the disease.
Experts from around the world say politically-driven attempts by the United States and its allies regarding COVID-19 origins tracing are hindering global efforts to fight the disease.
It is a great irony that while the United States blames China for the coronavirus and tries to play up the lab leak theory, it has refused to allow investigations into its biowarfare activities which potentially pose a danger to the world, wrote a senior editor with the South African news and information website Independent Online (IOL).
HAVANA - The Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has condemned attempts by the United States to manipulate the origins tracing of COVID-19 for political gains, according to a statement published Friday on the PCC's website.
A Nigerian virologist said COVID-19 origins tracing should not be politicized but be based on concrete scientific evidence.
