"We as humans live in a community in which we rise and fall together with a shared future. In the face of major crises, no single country can remain insulated and intact. Viruses know no border or races. The only way to defeat them is for the international community to work together," said a joint statement sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariate.

BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Over 300 political parties, social societies and think tanks in over 100 countries and districts opposed politicizing virus origin-tracing in a joint statement sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariate on Monday.

In the face of the grave threat COVID-19 possess to life, safety and health of all mankind, the statement stressed that the international society needs to strengthen anti-epidemic cooperation, called for the WHO to carry out global virus origin-tracing research in an objective and fair manner, and stands resolutely against politicizing virus origin-tracing issue.

"We as humans live in a community in which we rise and fall together with a shared future. In the face of major crises, no single country can remain insulated and intact. Viruses know no border or races. The only way to defeat them is for the international community to work together," the statement said.

"(The coronavirus') origin-tracing is a serious scientific issue that must be studied by scientists and medical experts around the world through cooperation before any scientific conclusion is drawn on the basis of facts and evidences," the paper stressed.