Medical workers carry a patient into an ambulance in New York, the United States, April 6, 2020. Photo: Xinhua)

Amid tremendous doubts in the US over the US government's inefficient anti-epidemic measures, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang urged the US government to respond to US people's concerns timely and called for the World Health Organization to start a probe into related issues at a press conference on Mon-day.

Doubts have emerged from inside the US regarding when the epidemic started in the US, what the US government had hidden, and why they so urgently try to scapegoat other countries and international organizations for the pandemic, Geng said. 

The US side should address the concerns of their own people and the international community and the WHO can also help probe these issues, Geng said. 

Geng's remarks came amid US media's tremendous reports recently doubting the US government's anti-epidemic policy. 

He stressed that infectious diseases are mutual enemies for the mankind, that both China and the US are victims, and only unity and cooperation among the international community could overcome them. 

China hopes the US could hold an open, transparent and responsible attitude, and launch practical measures to safeguard US people's life and health and work together with the international society to sustain global public health, Geng said.

For example, on April 21, Los Angeles Times reported that the first COVID-19 death occurred on February 6, citing local public health officials, which was nearly one month earlier than the first death case officially confirmed by the US CDC. The report also said that local officials claimed that the earliest COVID-19 infections in California probably happened in December 2019. 

On April 13 and 19, at White House press briefings, CBS and CNN reporters sepa-rately questioned why the US government had not launched measures in a timely manner if they had known the pandemic would spread globally. On April 14, The Atlantic website released an article claiming that inefficient policies of the US are the main reasons for the outbreak in the US.  

On April 4, the Washington Post released an investigative report on the US' poor re-sponse in the early stages of the pandemic.  

Global Times