The Chinese government — which has defied efforts by international inspectors to examine labs in the country or share detailed information about COVID-19 — still claimed on Tuesday that it has been “open and transparent” in the search to determine how the global pandemic originated.
China had “shared the most data and research results on virus tracing and made important contributions to global virus tracing research,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning Mao told reporters after the US Energy Department assessed the coronavirus leaked from a lab in the city of Wuhan.
