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China urges WHO not to descend to political tool of COVID-19 origins-tracing

GT staff reporters April 14, 2023

China urges WHO not to descend to political tool of COVID-19 origins-tracing

China has urged World Health Organization (WHO) officials to return to science and fairness and not to be subject to or willing to descend to become a tool of politicization of certain countries, after some in the international organization smeared China for lacking transparency in sharing data about...More

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

Left Review Online September 01, 2021

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

While the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning its next phase of COVID-19 origins study, China has made it clear that the next-phase study should be carried out in multiple places worldwide, including places outside China where samples of human and animal before the Wuhan outbreak were tested...More

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Left Review Online July 20, 2021

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Over 2 million Chinese netizens have signed an open letter as of Tuesday noon, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) investigate the US' Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins, and the number is still increasing rapidly. The letter was issued as the WHO on Friday proposed a second...More

WSJ-cited lab report on COVID-19 origins provides no new info, just ‘pathetic story to push political agenda’

Chen Qingqing June 14, 2021

WSJ-cited lab report on COVID-19 origins provides no new info, just ‘pathetic story to push political agenda’

With US media and politicians again citing so-called "reports and evidence" hyping "the lab leak theory" on the question of COVID-19 origins, echoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's latest claim on the conspiracy, a source close to the WHO origins-tracing team told the Global Times on Tuesday...More

How history teaches diseases change world power

Wang Wen June 04, 2021

How history teaches diseases change world power

The development of modern technology can easily lead to misperceptions that infectious diseases can be effectively controlled in developed nations. For example, the last naturally occurring case of variole was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in...More

Top-level Chinese scientists call on WHO to dispatch experts to more countries on studies of coronavirus origins

Left Review Online February 07, 2021

Top-level Chinese scientists call on WHO to dispatch experts to more countries on studies of coronavirus origins

While the team of 13 WHO experts are halfway through their highly anticipated field visits to Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province, a number of predominant Chinese epidemiologists - including those close to the National Health Commission and Chinese CDC, jointly called for similar field studies on...More

WHO admits Wuhan may not be virus origin, offsetting rumor

Zhao Yusha August 08, 2020

WHO admits Wuhan may not be virus origin, offsetting rumor

WHO's admission that Wuhan may not be the origin of COVID-19 may put to rest conspiracy theories that have put the central Chinese city and China in a bad light over the virus' origin, Chinese epidemiologists said. They urged for more research on transmission channels and virus host...More

Enhance ability to fight long virus battle: Chinese Media

Left Review Online April 26, 2020

Enhance ability to fight long virus battle: Chinese Media

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that "the worst is yet ahead of us" in the coronavirus outbreak. The warning came as many in the US and Europe are eager to go back to work amid the outbreak. The prospect of an outbreak remains uncertain....More

Can the World Health Organization be rejuvenated?

Kishore Mahbubani March 22, 2020

Can the World Health Organization be rejuvenated?

Kofi Annan, the late UN Secretary-General, often said the world was a "global village." He was right. Our world has shrunk. The recent spread of COVID-19 worldwide, affecting both rich and developing countries, confirms that all 7.5 billion people of the world live in a global village. Wise...More

Trump’s racist tweet another attempt to deflect blame

Left Review Online March 20, 2020

Trump’s racist tweet another attempt to deflect blame

With the COVID-19 outbreak in full swing in the US, President Donald Trump had the temerity to call it "the Chinese Virus" on Twitter on Tuesday. Labeling a virus to reference to a country, region or people contradicts long-held principles of the World Health Organization (WHO). What prompted...More

Western conceit continues to cost lives

Shen Yi March 15, 2020

Western conceit continues to cost lives

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to threaten global security, with the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rising Monday to 113,584, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. China on Monday reported just 19 new infections and 17 new deaths. During an interview with the New York...More

Let the West deceive itself in virus fight

Shi Tian March 12, 2020

Let the West deceive itself in virus fight

Instead of making an all-out effort to fight the coronavirus, some countries in the West have exploited the crisis to attack China's prevention measures, which are proving more than effective. And now that the virus has now gone global, some mainstream Western media have shifted their attacks to...More

Eight negative arguments smearing China’s virus fight must be refuted

Left Review Online February 27, 2020

Eight negative arguments smearing China’s virus fight must be refuted

The COVID-19 outbreak in China has begun to decline outside Hubei Province, meanwhile in some countries it is on the rise. This fully shows that the epidemic is a challenge faced by all humanity and needs to be addressed by all countries. China's experience in combating the outbreak...More