China says ''shocked'' by WHO plan for COVID origins study

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China says ''shocked'' by WHO plan for COVID origins study

Thursday, 22 July 2021 | AP | Beijing

China says ''shocked'' by WHO plan for COVID origins study

 A senior Chinese health official said Thursday he was shocked by the World Health Organisation's plan for the second phase of a COVID-19 origins study.

National Health Commission Vice Minister Zeng Yixin dismissed the lab leak theory as a rumor running counter to common sense.

The head of the WHO acknowledged last week that it was premature to rule out a potential link between the pandemic and a leak of the coronavirus from a Chinese lab.

Zeng called the theory a rumor that goes against science.

 

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