{"id":34287,"date":"2021-07-22T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/china-refuses-further-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins-in-wuhan-lab"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:59:32","slug":"china-refuses-further-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins-in-wuhan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34287","title":{"rendered":"China refuses further inquiry into Covid-19 origins in Wuhan lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO proposal to audit Chinese laboratories is \u2018arrogance towards science\u2019, says health official<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s government has refused to cooperate with the second stage of an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19, labelling a proposal to audit Chinese labs as \u201carrogance towards science\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese health officials held a press conference on Thursday to respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/16\/who-chief-calls-for-audits-of-wuhan-labs-after-first-mission-controversy\">last week\u2019s proposal by the World Health Organization<\/a> that the second phase of its investigation into the origins of the pandemic should include \u201caudits of relevant laboratories and research institutions operating in the area of the initial human cases identified in December 2019\u201d, meaning the city of Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/china-refuses-further-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins-in-wuhan-lab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO proposal to audit Chinese laboratories is \u2018arrogance towards science\u2019, says health officialCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s government has refused to cooperate with the second stage of an international investigati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1066,914,512,916,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34287\/revisions\/34288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}