The United States must work with China to find a global solution to end the raging COVID-19 pandemic, said renowned US economist Jeffrey Sachs in an interview with Malaysian media published on Sept 5.

MANAMA - The United States has been using the COVID-19 pandemic as a tool of political manipulation against China despite China's openness, transparency and cooperation with all parties in tracking down the origins of the lethal virus, said Chinese ambassador to Bahrain recently.

A recent report on the origins of COVID-19 published by the US intelligence community is "questionable" and contains "opaque" evaluations, former Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed Hassan has said. (Read more)

Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has criticized a so-called investigation report on COVID-19's origins recently released by the US intelligence community.

Politicizing the origins of COVID-19 will only lead to untrustworthy conclusions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday during the plenary session of the sixth Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

The US intelligence community's assessment on the origins of COVID-19, released on Friday, does not rule out either natural exposure or a laboratory accident. It falsely claims that China "continues to hinder the global investigation, resists sharing information and blames other countries".

In an article published in the Guyana Chronicle newspaper, Guyana's former president Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar said: "All of this is occurring because of the phenomenal and social economic progress that China has made over the last four decades."

MOSCOW - The United States is using its investigation into the origins of COVID-19 as a political tool to pressure China and preserve hegemony, according to an article published recently on the portal Geopolitika.ru.

Uncovering the origins of COVID-19 is a matter for science and should be free of political interference, a senior Bangladeshi official said on Thursday.

MALE - A recent report on the origins of COVID-19 published by the US intelligence community is "questionable" and contains "opaque" evaluations, former Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed Hassan has said.

"When it comes to an issue of global health, the first priority has to be science and facts. Intuition, analysis and many intelligence generating methodologies have no place in the public health sphere," Waheed said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

Most Chinese young people view the US' performance during the COVID-19 pandemic negatively and are angry at the US politicizing origins tracing, according to a survey conducted by the Communist Youth League and China Youth Daily and released on Sept 2.

LONDON - Though it is known that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from animals, its exact source and intermediate host remain unclear, an article has said.

Origins tracing and research work of COVID-19 should be carried out based on laboratory samples collected around the world prior to its outbreak in 2019, said a Mozambican health expert.

MAPUTO - Origins tracing and research work of COVID-19 should be carried out based on laboratory samples collected around the world prior to its outbreak in 2019, said a Mozambican health expert.

Politicizing origins tracing of COVID-19 pandemic will lead nowhere, and Washington should return to a science-based, cooperation-driven global response, China's Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua said.

The United States intelligence community's report on the origins of COVID-19 lacks credibility and marks another attempt to politicize the pandemic, experts said in calling for intensified international cooperation to fight the coronavirus. They also made clear that efforts to determine how the virus arose should be left to scientists.

The investigation of the origins of COVID-19 should be dealt with solely by scientists and any politicization of this issue is deeply regretted and damaging global cooperation in the fight against the pandemic, said a renowned US scholar.