Supported by the People, China Calls for US Biology Lab Investigations Again

BEIJING – Ministry of Foreign Affairs China again calls for Fort Detrick biolab investigations into the origins of the pandemic COVID-19 . This call comes after 4.7 million Chinese citizens petitioned WHO to send experts to the facility in Maryland, United States (US).

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Chinese citizens had conveyed a clear message in signing the petition, created by state-owned news agency The Global Times, calling for the World Health Organization (WHO) to conduct an investigation into the Fort Detrick biolab.

“In less than five days, about five million people participated. The rising numbers represent the aspirations of the Chinese people and show their anger at some in the US for political manipulation through traceability issues,” he said. Russia Today, Wednesday (21/7/2021).

Zhao said that the responsibility for investigating their own lab should rest with the US. He claimed that reports of an unknown respiratory illness that caused pneumonia in Virginia in the summer of 2019 and the decision to halt some operations at the Maryland biolab were suspicious and worthy of investigation.

In 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a stop order and to halt operations at the germ lab amid safety concerns.

Zhao also cited a large-scale e-cigarette disease outbreak in Wisconsin that same year.

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As of Wednesday morning, some 4.7 million Chinese citizens had signed a petition calling on the WHO to investigate US laboratories as potential sources of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The petition was launched last week when WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lashed out at Beijing for failing to provide raw data from the early days of its outbreak in China.

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