China firmly opposes to some countries politicizing COVID-19 traceability

China welcomed the World Health Assembly's decision on COVID-19 resolution, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday, adding that the vast majority of countries believe that the current focus is on pandemic containment rather than virus traceability, which shows that there is no position to politicize the issue of tracing virus' source.

Concerning the source of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has restricted the scope of traceability research to finding animal sources, intermediate hosts and routes of transmission for better response to future outbreaks, said Zhao.

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