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COVID-19 origin tracing: Politicized and twisted into conspiracy - experts
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The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. /Reuters

The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. /Reuters

What the U.S and Western countries did to China recently about the COVID-19 origin tracing is a deadly and harmful political virus, Muhammad Asif Noor, director of the Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies, said in an article published on Pakistan's Gwadar Pro website earlier this week.

"China has still been trapped in the suspicions and conspiracies of a bunch of countries ... the ongoing tense and slander campaign against China at the global scale is despicable and distressing to the core."

He noted that the World Health Organization's (WHO) second phase origin study plan lacks common sense and is inconsistent and should not just focus on China. 

"The logical next step will be to expand the investigations to other countries including the U.S. instead of focusing solely on China," he said in the article. 

The United States and other Western countries have a dark history of fabricating evidence and confusing people, he said, and noted that China has the right to question the United States and the West and to call on a COVID-19 investigation into the U.S.'s Fort Detrick laboratory.

He also affirmed China's international cooperation in disaster relief and anti-epidemic work, as well as China's help to Pakistan and the rest of the world, saying that "over 600 million doses of Chinese vaccines have been offered to more than 200 countries across the globe to help save lives and fight pandemic globally."

Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, in an article published on the NBC News website earlier this month, pointed out that COVID-19 origin tracing is twisted into a conspiracy and warned that "we do need to make sure science is done well and in a trustworthy manner, including being transparent about conflicts of interest and political pressures that may twist its representation."

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