KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. attempts to point fingers at China over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to fall flat, wrote a columnist in an article published on Malaysian media.
"Unsatisfied with authoritative WHO's findings that did not pinpoint Beijing, U.S. President Joe Biden commissioned a 90-day investigation, but to no avail. The creme de la creme of the Washington intelligence unit failed to substantiate the Wuhan lab leak theory with convincing evidence," M G Heng said in an opinion piece published in local news portal Malaysiakini.
"Again, they recycled the 'lack of transparency' as an excuse to cover up their ineptness. However, more and more evidence has surfaced that suggests that the U.S. may be the actual ground zero of the COVID-19 outbreak," wrote the author.
"Instead of busily pointing fingers at others, perhaps Washington should investigate its own backyard -- Fort Detrick, an advanced biological weapons defence center," Heng said, noting that six months before COVID-19 became known to the world, an incident at the Fort Detrick biological laboratory forced the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to shut down the facility.
As the Delta and Lambda variants continue to evolve, the WHO should deploy an expert team like the Wuhan fact-finding mission to Fort Detrick, the author said.
"Thus, the mystery of Fort Detrick ought to be probed to unlock the origins of the deadly virus for the betterment of mankind. Otherwise, the global economy and health system will constantly be under threat," the author said.
