US misleads world on COVID-19 origins-tracing: media

DHAKA - "The United States and a fistful of its allies are trying to mislead the world," an op-ed article by the leading English newspaper Bangladesh Post said recently.

"On August 27, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of the US released a summary of the intelligence community assessment on COVID-19 origins, which is the latest example of America's above sinister intentions," it said.

The article, which was titled "The world should adopt scientific attitudes to COVID-19 origin-tracing," pointed out the United States and its allies were determined to foil the scientific and rational approaches of origins-tracing of the virus at any cost.

"They don't care about precious human lives. Their reckless moves compel the world to believe that the US is trying to hide something fishy that happened in its territory by thwarting scientific origin-tracing of the virus, which is a must for saving humanity from the pandemic," the article said.

The international community must adopt scientific attitudes to the origins-tracing of COVID-19, the article further said.

"They have to ignore every visible and invisible pressure from the US, which is crucial to save humanity from the fatal disease and prevent more pandemics in the future," it noted.

According to the article, the origins can be traced only by promoting early case search, molecular epidemiology, animal (intermediate) host introduction, and other origins-tracing studies in multiple countries and regions around the world.

The entire process has to be fully guided by scientific evidence and only can be done in a scientific, non-political way, it added.

"The international community should have scientific attitudes and forge ahead global cooperation to run a thorough study, upholding the recommendations and conclusions of the first-phase WHO (World Health Organization) report, in many possible locations around the world," it said.