An employee wearing personal protective equipment spraying disinfectant as part of Covid-19 measures at a factory in Wuhan on Aug 9, 2021. - AFP
BEIJING (AFP): China on Friday (Aug 13) rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started.
Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the orgins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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