Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 18 – In a special interview with Fresh News CEO on fighting COVID19, the Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian informed that more than 20 million Chinese people have petitioned the WHO online to investigate safety concerns at the Fort Detrick biological laboratory in the United States.

"Rumor has it that the United States is putting together a report on the origin-tracing of COVID19 in the near future, we wonder what it would look like other than something fabricated out of thin air. The United States has to recognize that in the face of facts, science and justice, its attempt to politicize origin-tracing is not only against people's shared aspiration, but also doomed to failure. In the end, they will shoot themselves in the foot,” the ambassador said.

"I would like to stress that politicization of origin-tracing is the biggest obstacle to the fight against the pandemic, and that China's position on global origin-tracing is consistent and clear-cut," he continued.

Ambassador Wang mentioned that so far, 76 countries have written to the WHO Director-General, emphasizing that origin-tracing of the virus is a scientific matter that should not be politicized and that the China-WHO joint report should be upheld. Politicians, the media, experts, and citizens from many countries have spoken out in various ways, accusing the United States of politicizing the origin-tracing.
=FRESH NEWS