China says supports COVID-19 origins tracing in multiple countries

The Chinese government has always supported the scientific origin-tracing of COVID-19 but is opposed to the politicization of the study or using it to shifting blames, said Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China's National Health Commission.

Zeng made the remarks in response to a U.S. report on COVID-19 origins, which does not rule out either natural exposure or laboratory accident as the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Zeng said the fact that the U.S. origin-tracing report was released by the intelligence community, not by professional medical institutions, is itself ironic.

He voiced support for scientists to conduct studies on the origin of the COVID-19 in multiple countries around the world, including the U.S.