American Military News by Ryan Morgan July 26, 2021
Last Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian raised new calls for the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate a U.S. Army base in Maryland as the potential point of origin for COVID-19. Zhao did not provide any proof for his claim, however, and his claims followed WHO’s push for more info about COVID-19’s origins in Wuhan, China.
Chinese state-run Global Times reported 5 million Chinese netizens had signed an open letter demanding WHO investigate the U.S. Army base at Fort Detrick, Md., which serves as the home of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). The Chinese petition was started on July 17, two days after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus might have escaped from a Chinese virology lab in Wuhan and said, “If we get full information [from China], we can exclude that [lab leak theory].”
On Wednesday, Zhao praised the petition circulated by Chinese netizens following the WHO chief’s comments.
“Since the open letter was published on July 17, it has received encouraging responses from the Chinese people and endorsed by about 5 million people within 5 days,” Zhao said. “The increasing endorsement reflects the Chinese people’s aspiration and their anger in the political manipulation by some in the U.S. A probe into Fort Detrick is long overdue, but the US has not done it yet.”
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