Dr. Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, demanded that lawmakers work to hold China accountable for stonewalling investigations into the origins of COVID-19.
Dr. Jamie Metzl, an expert witness at the House hearing on the origins of COVID-19, called on lawmakers to launch a bipartisan investigation probing the Wuhan lab and said China must be held accountable for blocking investigators.
"China’s position on the study of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is consistent," Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Wednesday at a press conference in Beijing."We always support and participate in science-based global origins tracing. At the same time, we firmly oppose all forms of political manipulation."allowed into the country, claiming this demonstrated China was"open" and"transparent" with the international community.
However, Metzl said that China's flat denial of the lab-leak hypothesis and repeated refusals to turn over data is anything but transparent. "The primary reason there has been no comprehensive investigation into COVID-19 origins is the reprehensible actions of the Chinese government," he said. Peter Daszak , Thea Fischer and other members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021.
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