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Secretary Blinken calls China's coronavirus origin cooperation ‘highly deficient’
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the World Health Organization's first study on the coronavirus pandemic's origins "highly deficient."
"We need to get to the bottom of what happened. We need accountability, but we also need to understand what happened, why it happened, how it happened if we're going to be able to put in place the necessary measures to prevent it from happening again, or at least be in a better place to mitigate the next pandemic if we can't fully prevent one," Blinken continued. High-ranking Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi, head of Beijing’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission, told Blinken on Friday that the Wuhan lab leak theory is an "absurd story," according to Chinese state media.More Related News