China said Monday that it was “extremely unlikely” that COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed that the virus was more likely to come from a laboratory instead of natural transmission.
“The conclusion that the team of joint experts from China, which, in Wuhan, reached the conclusion that the team of China joint experts was reached in field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan,” said the ministry spokeswoman Foreign relations, mao none.
“This has been widely recognized by the international community and the scientific community,” he added.
The CIA said on Saturday that the virus was “more likely” filtered from a Chinese laboratory that transmitted by animals.
The new evaluation occurred after John Ratcliffe was confirmed last week as director of the CIA under the second administration of the White House of Donald Trump.
“The CIA evaluates with little confidence that an origin related to the investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely that a natural origin based on the available report body,” said a CIA spokesman in a statement on Saturday.
The agency had not previously determined whether Covid had been unleashed by a laboratory or shedding setback from animals.
Beijing urged the United States on Monday to “stop politicizing and instrumentalize the issue of the tracking of origin.”
Mao said Washington should “stop staining and changing other countries (Y) should respond to the legitimate concerns of the international community as soon as possible.”
