“More and more clues and evidence showed an earlier appearance of Covid-19 in the United States,” a commission spokesperson said in a statement to state-run news agency Xinhua.
“The next step of tracing the origin should be carried out in the United States, and we urge the US side to immediately stop smearing and attacking China, face its own problems, and give a serious and responsible explanation to the international community,” the statement said.
According to the Trump site, the virus has a “biological characteristic that is not found in nature” and originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China, which has “inadequate biosafety levels”.
In the strongly-worded statement, the NHC said the website was “just like the previous, repeated hyping of the ‘Wuhan laboratory leak’ [theory]”, which reflected the “sinister character of the US in politicising scientific issues”.
