Politicizing COVID-19 origin-tracing "extremely immoral": official

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Politicizing the COVID-19 origin-tracing undermines global cooperation, affects the global fight against the pandemic, and will lead to more life losses, which is extremely immoral, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.

Yang Tao, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of International Organizations and Conferences, made the remarks at a press briefing to foreign diplomats on the WHO-China joint study.

Certain countries cannot wait to cajole other countries to sign a so-called joint statement to oppose the report, although the WHO-China mission's final report has not been released yet, Yang said.