Chinese disease expert says Probe Origins Covid-19 must shift to the US: Report

Shanghai: A Chinese senior expert said the United States must be a priority in the subsequent phase of investigation into the origin of Covid-19 after a study shows this disease can circulate there on December 2019, Media said on Thursday.

This study, published this week by the US National Institute for Health (NIH), shows that at least seven people in five different US states were infected with SARS-COV-2, a virus that caused Covid-19, weeks before the first official Reported case.

Zeng Guang, Head of Epidemiology with the Control Center and Prevention of Chinese Disease, told the State Tabloid The Global Times that the attention must now shift to the United States, which is slow to test people in the initial stages of the outbreak, and also the homes of many biological laboratories.

“All subjects related to bio-weapons must be quoted by the state,” he said.

Commenting on the study on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said now “clear” that the Covid-19 outbreak has “multi origin” and other countries must work with the World Health Organization (WHO).

The origin of Pandemi has become a source of political tension between China and the United States, with a lot of focus on the Wuhan Virological Institute, which is located in the city where the outbreak was first identified at the end of 2019.

A report by the US Government National Laboratory. Concluded that he made sense that the virus leaked from Wuhan Lab, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.