China on Thursday rejected new attempts to politicize the origins of COVID-19, repeating that experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) had already concluded that a "lab leak" was "extremely unlikely." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks after U.S. President Biden ordered a probe into COVID-19 origins on Wednesday.
 

Zhao reiterated China's support for a comprehensive, transparent and evidence-based international investigation and stressed that China's open and transparent stance has been positively appraised by international experts.