正面刚！国家卫健委回应“武汉实验室泄漏论”
22日上午，国务院新闻办召开发布会，对外详细公布了中国-世卫组织针对新冠病毒溯源工作的有关情况。
国家卫生健康委副主任曾益新首先介绍了今年年初世卫组织国际专家组来华开展病毒溯源工作的相关情况。他表示，中国秉持公开、透明、科学、合作的原则，全力支持世卫专家组工作，完全满足世卫专家参访的要求，让世卫专家去了所有他们想去的单位，会见了所有他们想见的人，溯源专家对每个问题和数据都做了认真分析和深入研究。
曾益新强调，根据世卫组织专家团全球溯源研究的中国部分报告结论，新冠病毒通过中间宿主进入到人类社会是“比较可能到非常可能”，从实验室引入是“极不可能”。越来越多科学证据表明这份报告是一份很有价值、权威的、经得起科学检验、经得起历史检验的报告。报告的结论是科学的，产生的过程也始终坚持科学原则。
针对世卫组织提出的新冠病毒溯源第二阶段计划，曾益新指出，这个计划里面将“中国违反实验室规程造成病毒泄漏”这个假设作为研究重点之一，既违反常识也违背科学规律。
China will not follow the World Health Organization's suggested plan on second phase of novel coronavirus origin-tracing which prioritizes a lab leak theory, Zeng Yixin, deputy head of the National Health Commission (NHC), said at a press briefing Thursday.
"I was surprised when I saw WHO's origin-tracing plan for the second phase," he said. "The plan has set the assumption of China leaking the virus due to violating research instructions as one of the research priorities."
Zeng noted that "the plan indicates the disrespect to common sense and the arrogant attitude toward science."
今年3月份,世卫组织发布的病毒溯源联合研究报告已经得到全球绝大多数科学家和权威人士的支持，但美国方面却持续炒作“病毒实验室泄露论”，将病毒溯源政治化，并在没有证据的情况下，持续对中国进行抹黑和栽赃，更对中国科学家展开无端攻击。
对此，曾益新在会上明确表示，中国不可能接受世卫组织的提议，中国将继续支持科学地展开病毒溯源工作，但是中国明确反对将溯源工作政治化。
The second phase of origin-tracing should be conducted based on the first-phase conclusions and China has opposed politicizing such work, according to Zeng. "No need to conduct repetitive research which has already come to clear conclusions."
Zeng said China respects the report results concluded by all the renowned, experienced WHO experts in March which said the "lab leak" was "extremely unlikely."
"The Chinese government has made it clear that the origin-tracing work must be based on science," he added.
此外，曾益新就关于武汉病毒所的若干谣言作了详细说明和澄清。他强调，第二阶段的溯源工作应在第一阶段结论的基础上进行，对于“已经有了明确结论的，我们就不应该再重复开展，而应该在成员国充分广泛磋商的基础上，推动在全球多国多地范围内开展早期病例搜索、分子流行病学、动物（中间）宿主等方面的溯源工作。”
针对“病毒实验室泄露”的谣言，中科院武汉国家生物安全实验室主任、武汉病毒所研究员袁志明也给予回应。
袁志明表示，武汉P4实验室在2018年正式投入运行以来，没有发生过任何病原泄露和人员感染事故。个别报道称“武汉病毒研究所有3名研究人员曾于2019年的11月份到医院就诊，其症状和新冠病毒是一致的”的说法完全是无中生有。
袁志明强调，2019年12月30日之前，武汉病毒研究所没有接触、保藏和研究过新冠病毒。武汉病毒研究所从来没有设计、制造和泄漏新冠病毒。目前为止，武汉病毒研究所的职工和研究生，保持新冠病毒的“零感染”记录。
Zeng clarified several rumors and confusions on the "lab leak theory" involving the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
He strongly refuted rumors including one about three staff getting sick because of the coronavirus and the other one about the institute conducting so-called "gain of function" experiments on the virus.
Yuan Zhiming, a professor at the WIV and director of China's National Biosafety Laboratory, further dismantled the rumor about the three WIV staff.
It has long been rumored that three people from the WIV went to a hospital for the exact same symptoms as COVID-19 back in November 2019. Based on this rumor, many media outlets speculated that the Chinese government lied about how COVID-19 started to spread in Wuhan.
"If you want the absolute truth, there's a straightforward way," Yuan said at the press briefing. "You only need to ask those media outlets for the names of the three people."
"I've been asking this since a long time ago and no one has replied," he said.