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• Full Text: China releases chronicle of international cooperation on WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part

  China on Wednesday released a chronicle of international cooperation on the WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part.

• COVID-19 might have started to spread in Sept. 2019 in US

  Chinese researchers have discovered by employing big-data analysis that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States might have started to spread around in September 2019, earlier than the officially announced date of its first confirmed case.

• China, S. Korea vow to boost bilateral ties

  ?South Korean President Moon Jae-in and visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed on Wednesday to promote bilateral ties and strengthen cooperation.

• Investigation of US labs necessary for COVID-19 origins tracing: S. African media

  ?It is a great irony that while the U.S. blames China for the coronavirus and tries to play up the lab leak theory, it has refused to allow investigations into its own biowarfare activities, wrote a senior editor with a South African news and information website.

• WHO chief urges joint efforts to prevent future COVID-19-like pandemic

  ?World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called for countries to work together to ensure that a pandemic at the magnitude of COVID-19 shall not occur again in the near future.

• Iran opposes 'politicizing' of COVID-19 origins

  ?Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said the country is opposed to politicizing the origins-tracing of COVID-19.

• US origins tracing of COVID-19 by intelligence harmful: commissioner of Chinese foreign ministry

  ?The U.S. attempt to trace the origins of COVID-19 by its intelligence community is malicious and harmful, Liu Xianfa, commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative Region, has said.

• US investigation into COVID-19 origins used as geopolitical weapon against China: media

  The United States is using its investigation into the origins of COVID-19 as a political tool to pressure China and preserve hegemony, according to an article published recently on the portal Geopolitika.ru.

• Blaming China not the answer to COVID-19 origin-tracing: Zimbabwean FM

  ?International cooperation in fighting COVID-19 is indispensable if the world is to fully control and defeat the pandemic, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Frederick Shava said.

• Bangladeshi party leader rejects 'fabricated' US report on COVID-19 origins tracing

  ?A Bangladeshi party leader has turned down the U.S. report on COVID-19 origins tracing on Monday, calling it "fabricated, false" and politically motivated.

• Chinese FM holds phone talk with US Secretary of State

  Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday, exchanging views on the situation in Afghanistan and China-U.S. ties.

• Chinese health authority opposes scapegoating in name of origins tracing

  Coronavirus origins tracing should never be used as a handy tool for scapegoating, nor should it be manipulated for political purposes, a senior Chinese health official said.

• Request to probe Fort Detrick reasonable: FM

  By calling for an investigation into Fort Detrick and the University of North Carolina (UNC), China hope to rid global origins study of the disruption posed by U.S. politicization so as to create enabling conditions for science-based research, said a Foreign Ministry spokesperson Thursday.

• COVID-19 origins tracing should not be politicized: Zimbabwean newspaper

  As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world and claim millions of lives, a Zimbabwean state-run media outlet said the COVID-19 origins tracing shouldn't be politicized.