Washington should stop making false accusations against other countries and start revealing information about the work of American bio labs around the world, Liu Penggu, the press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, told TASS.
He was commenting on reports that the US CIA is inclined to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic began due to a virus leak from a laboratory in Wuhan.
As the diplomat emphasized, the United States “must immediately stop falsely accusing and slandering other countries, and stop shifting blame“. In addition, he said, the US side should "respond as soon as possible to the legitimate concerns of the international community and provide the World Health Organization (WHO) with early data on suspected cases of infection, disclose information about Fort Detrick /b.r. a biological laboratory in Maryland/ and its biological laboratories around the world.
In 2021, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the WHO should consider versions of the coronavirus leaking from the US military laboratory at Fort Detrick. The laboratory is home to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. It is run by the Pentagon and conducts biomedical research, including on infectious diseases.