US reiterates call for investigation into the origins of COVID-19, slams China not cooperating
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US reiterates call for investigation into the origins of COVID-19, slams China not cooperating

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday launched a scathing attack against China for a lack of transparency during "the early stages" of the coronavirus pandemic and called for a more thorough investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Blinken's remarks come as a report of a joint inquiry by the World Health Organization and China published last month did not conclusively establish how or when the virus began spreading and did little to address Western concerns that the Chinese Communist Party bent the investigation to its advantage. "I think China knows that in the early stages of COVID, it didn't do what it needed to do, which was to give access to international experts, in real-time to share information, in real-time to provide real transparency," said Blinken in an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC, as per the transcript by the US Department of State. A group of international scientists called for a new investigation into the origins of Covid-19 last week after China and the World Health Organization released a scrutinized report last week concluding that the virus most likely came from wildlife instead of a laboratory.

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