US will not accept World Health Organization findings out of Wuhan without independently verifying
- ‘We will work with our partners, and also draw on information collected and analysed by our own intelligence community,’ says a US State Department spokesman
- The Biden administration pushes back on Beijing’s claim that the disease may have started elsewhere
“Clearly, the Chinese, at least heretofore, has not offered the requisite transparency that we need and that, just as importantly, the international community needs so that we can prevent these sorts of pandemics from ever happening again,” he told reporters during a daily briefing.
“We will work with our partners, and also draw on information collected and analysed by our own intelligence community … rather than rush to conclusions that may be motivated by anything other than science,” he said.
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In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the probe in Wuhan is just part of the investigation, and reiterated the call for the US to let WHO experts to launch an investigation in the nation.
