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  US claim on Chinese 'lab leak' theory groundless: German expert

  The U.S. government's claim that the novel coronavirus escaped from a Chinese laboratory is groundless and driven by politics, according to German sociologist and political observer Heinz Dieterich.

• China is keeping its word in building global immunity barrier

  China will strive to provide 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world throughout this year and offer 100 million U.S. dollars to COVAX, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday, marking a further step by China in honoring its commitment to making vaccines a "global public good."
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  Chinese FM attends East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting

  Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday attended the 11th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting via video link, and called for solidarity and cooperation among summit members to contribute to pandemic response and economic recovery.

• Philippine influencers call for probe into US Fort Detrick biolab

  Philippine influencers have launched an online petition, urging the international community to seriously look into the role of the Fort Detrick laboratory in the United States in the global spread of the COVID-19 virus.

• Wuhan lab leak theory not confirmed by US House Foreign Affairs Committee

  ?The claim that House Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States concluded the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab was dismissed in a fact-check report by the U.S. news magazine Newsweek on Tuesday.

• US closure of Fort Detrick lab not coincidental: expert

  ?The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic's origins, a Russian political observer has said.

• Secret deal between US Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed

  The United States pardoned members of a notorious Japanese germ warfare unit after World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons, research by a Chinese historian has revealed.

• Politicizing pandemic harmful to global fight against COVID-19: Brazilian neuroscientist

  ?The U.S. government's attempts to politicize the pandemic by claiming China as the source of COVID-19 are not only groundless, but "harmful" to the global fight against the disease, a Brazilian neuroscientist has said.

• So-called report by US congressmen on COVID-19 origins not credible

  ?The so-called report on COVID-19 origin tracing by U.S. congressmen is totally based on the concocted lies and distorted facts without providing any evidence, which is not credible or scientific, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.

• COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories can have deadly consequences, says columnist

  Conspiracy theories related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of vaccines "can have deadly consequences" as humanity struggles to keep the virus at bay, said a columnist in a recent article.

• Global search for virus natural resevoirs urgently needed: Chinese researchers

  ?A global search for natural reservoirs with the potential to carry SARS-CoV-2-like viruses is urgently needed, Chinese researchers said in a research paper.
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  Multiple political parties, social societies submit Joint Statement to WHO

  Over 300 political parties, social societies and think tanks in over 100 countries and regions opposed politicizing virus origin-tracing in a joint statement sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat.

• Philippines opposes politicization of COVID-19 origins

  The Philippines on Monday condemned politicizing the origins of COVID-19, joining a growing number of countries on the issue.

• WHO's plan on second-phase COVID-19 origin tracing politicized: Chinese embassy

  The work plan of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the second phase of investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is politicized and lacks a spirit of cooperation, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Britain said Sunday.