“I could feel that this plan revealed a lack of respect for common sense and an arrogant attitude towards science,” one of Beijing’s top health officials said
Beijing will refuse to cooperate with a second World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of coronavirus following an admission from the UN body that it was premature to rule out the virus had leaked from a lab.
Zeng Yixin, vice minister of China’s National Health Commission, speaks at a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing on Thursday.At a news conference in Beijing on Thursday, Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “completely shocked” by the idea.first investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic
But Zeng refused the assertion: “I could feel that this plan revealed a lack of respect for common sense and an arrogant attitude towards science.”Comment has been sought from the WHO and Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne.which exposed the scale of Chinese interference in Australian democracy, said China was worried that it would not be able to control the direction of any fresh inquiry.
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