China, together with other countries, actively participated in the consultations on the draft resolution on COVID-19 and joined the consensus on the current text, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. 

The EU submitted a draft to this year's World Health Assembly (WHA), and the parties reached a consensus on the content of the draft resolution after thorough discussions. 

"Against the backdrop of the global spread of the pandemic, the adoption of this resolution aims to support the WHO in playing a leading role and focus efforts on current international cooperation in the fight against the virus," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian noted at a daily briefing in Beijing.

The text of the current draft resolution calls on member states to take necessary measures to prevent discrimination and stigmatization, combat misinformation and disinformation, strengthen cooperation in the development of diagnostic tools, treatment methods, drugs and vaccines, and discovering the animal sources of the virus, and review the WHO's response to the outbreak at an appropriate moment, Zhao said.

"All these are in line with China's position," he stressed, adding that the adoption of any resolution "is the result of the joint efforts of member states and the text should not be interpreted in an out-of-context and one-sided way." 

While the content of the text is totally different from the "independent review" Australian side talked about, Zhao hit back when asked to comment on the independent inquiry Australia has called for.

The draft resolution on COVID-19 to be adopted by WHA is totally different from Australia's proposal of an independent international review, Zhao added.