China is able to let worldwide investigators go to the town of Wuhan as a part of an inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic however solely when the time is correct, the nation’s ambassador to the UK has advised Sky Information.

Liu Xiaoming defended his nation in opposition to a barrage of attacks from President Donald Trump over its dealing with of the well being emergency.

He insisted there had been no cover-up by the authorities because the first instances of COVID-19 had been reported in Wuhan in December.

The senior diplomat additionally denied allegations by US intelligence companies that China-linked hacking teams had been concentrating on US medical analysis institutes trying into coronavirus vaccines.

“There’s no cover-up up in any respect,” Ambassador Liu advised Sky Information presenter Mark Austin.

“We shared info with the WHO (World Well being Organisation) and the world at once and we notified america from the very starting on 13 January.”

President Trump has repeatedly accused China of hiding info on the virus in the course of the early days.

He has additionally claimed to have proof the illness leaked unintentionally from a laboratory in Wuhan that’s identified to have carried out analysis into coronaviruses in bats.

Beijing has dismissed the allegations as smears and disinformation.

Ambassador Liu mentioned his nation can be open to a global investigation headed by the World Well being Organisation coming to China, together with Wuhan, offered that it was not “politically motivated”.

“We’re open, we’re clear, now we have nothing to cover, now we have nothing to worry,” he mentioned.

“We welcome a global unbiased evaluate nevertheless it must be organised by the WHO. It must be worldwide.”

Requested if Beijing would give entry to worldwide scientists, the diplomat mentioned: “Sure after all at an acceptable time however not now.”

He mentioned in the mean time the world ought to concentrate on the worldwide hunt for a vaccine.

However the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Division of Homeland Safety this week accused China-linked “cyber actors” of concentrating on US organisations doing analysis into vaccines and coverings for COVID-19.

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Ambassador Liu requested what the proof was.

“This isn’t the primary time that the US made such a fabrication and a false accusations in opposition to China,” he mentioned.

“This isn’t solely their efforts to undermine the worldwide collaboration to work collectively to seek out vaccine, I feel vaccine would be the last answer to the issue.”

He underlined how Britain and China are working collectively to fight the virus.

Matt Hancock, the well being secretary, is because of communicate to his Chinese language counterpart together with British and Chinese language scientists on Friday to swap notes, the ambassador mentioned.

“We have to improve collaboration. This virus is our frequent enemy. We must always come to assistance from one another to win the ultimate battle.”