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BEIJING (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, XINHUA) - China has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to take the lead in respecting the conclusions of scientists, a day after the international body's director-general faulted the findings of a mission to study the origins of Covid-19 in China. "We need to respect science and respect the opinions and the conclusions reached by scientists," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told a daily briefing in Beijing on Wednesday (March 31). "The WHO should play a leading role." In a separate briefing, Chinese scientists working alongside the 17 international experts assembled by the WHO for...