The Chinese Embassy in Germany on Saturday accused German tabloid BILD of hyping up theories over the origins of the novel coronavirus, saying its reports are “tasteless and shameless.”
In a statement, the Chinese Embassy said the “study” cited by BILD is not a logical or science-based report.
The statement cited the remarks of Peter Ben Embarek, head of the World Health Organization expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus, that the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic is “extremely unlikely” to have come from a laboratory.
Although the laboratory incident theory has long been publicly rejected by a number of scientists and epidemiologists around the world, the German media outlet still concentrating on this investigation line, and that is “tasteless and shameless”, the embassy said.
China has always held the view that tracing the virus’s origin is a scientific question that should be answered through international scientific research and cooperation, it added.
The embassy also called on the tabloid to abandon ignorance and prejudice, and stop trying to fool its audience with fake news.
