China today bemoaned the politicisation of the COVID-19 origins research, accusing the United States of seeking to blame China by politicising the issue.
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China, the United States and the World Health Organisation are entangled in a feud that centers on whether the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, which China has repeatedly brushed off.
A joint WHO-China report published in late March this year concluded that a lab leak was "highly unlikely", and China wants the investigation to move on to other possibilities.
The most plausible scenario, is that the zoonotic virus jumped from bats to another animal that subsequently infected humans.
But so far, all the findings are not conclusive yet, and the WHO's Director-General said "all hypotheses are on the table and warrant complete and further studies."
Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a report from the U.S.' investigation into the origins of the pandemic by intelligence agencies will be released expeditiously.
The feud over whether to keep on pursuing the lab leak theory has delayed the next phase of research, and scientists of whom the WHO team for the joint report is comprised warned yesterday that the world better grasp the opportunity for solving the aching mystery.
China recently responded to continuing speculation about that lab leak theory by peddling the virus could have escaped from a U.S. military laboratory in Maryland.
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