Beijing: China has sharpened its attack on the United States over investigations into the coronavirus origin theory, that involved China’s Wuhan laboratory. Beijing has now demanded the World Health Organization (WHO) to inspect a military base in the US instead. Taking to Twitter, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian said, “If labs are to be investigated, then the WHO experts should go to Fort Detrick.”
Zhao Lijian’s statement was with regards to the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory, was transmitted to a person and then spread across the world. Since the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, a lab in the Chinese city is considered the prime suspect. China, however, has fiercely contested this and alleged on several occasions that supporters of the lab leak theory should be probing biological laboratories in the US, such as the one rumoured to be in Fort Detrick.