{"id":45330,"date":"2022-06-10T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/china-calls-theory-that-covid-originated-in-chinese-lab-politically-motivated-lie"},"modified":"2022-06-10T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:28:27","slug":"china-calls-theory-that-covid-originated-in-chinese-lab-politically-motivated-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45330","title":{"rendered":"China calls theory that Covid originated in Chinese lab \u2018politically motivated lie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO report has said origins of virus are still unknown and recommended further investigation<\/p>\n<p>China has repeated its assertion the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese laboratory is \u201ca politically motivated lie\u201d, after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended continued investigations this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lab leak theory is totally a lie concocted by anti-China forces for political purposes, which has nothing to do with science,\u201d the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/10\/china-calls-theory-that-covid-originated-in-chinese-lab-politically-motivated-lie\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO report has said origins of virus are still unknown and recommended further investigationChina has repeated its assertion the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese laboratory is \u201ca politically motivated lie\u201d, after the W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,1066,346,914,299,79,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-society","category-us-news","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\/45330","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330\/revisions\/45331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}