Speaking at the Davos Agenda video dialogue on Tuesday (Jan. 26), German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak began in China. She criticized Beijing and the WHO for their lack of transparency in handling the outbreak last year and for not informing the international community about the outbreak in a timely manner.
We have to be honest,” Merkel said, but Beijing and WHO lacked transparency in releasing information such as the origin of the virus at the start of the outbreak. She stressed that clear and open communication is key to cooperation among international partner countries. Multilateralism is not just about cooperation, but transparent cooperation.
It is reported that 69 parliamentarians from member countries of the G7 alliance signed a joint letter on Monday (January 25) to the United States and the heads of the G7 countries of Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Italy and Canada, in which they condemned the Chinese Communist Party‘s cover-up of the Wuhan virus (CCP virus or New Crown virus) outbreak and swayed the WHO to release information about the outbreak to the international community in a timely and transparent manner. 69 parliamentarians asked the G7 heads of state, including Angela Merkel, to urge Beijing to cooperate the independent investigation required by the international community into the origin and spread of the virus, “which is very necessary because the outbreak is far from over …… We should learn from our initial mistakes and focus wholeheartedly on slowing the spread of the virus and organizing the development and distribution of a vaccine. “
In contrast to the CCP’s concealment of the Epidemic, the mutant CCP virus strain – “B-117” – first notified to WHO by the UK on December 14 last year has a total of 17 mutated loci and its ability to spread is about 70% higher than the original strain; as of mid-January the UK As of mid-January, the UK version of the mutated CCP virus has spread to 50 countries and regions worldwide.
Prime Minister Johnson told the media on Friday (Jan. 22) that there is “evidence” that the Variant virus is not only more contagious, but may also lead to higher mortality rates. He said the new virus has largely contributed to the overload of British hospitals.
The WHO said the geographic distribution of the mutated CCA virus may have been underestimated, considering that most of the testing of the virus was done in countries with virus sequencing capabilities.
WHO also said that the more rapid and widespread the CCP virus that triggered the wave of outbreaks, the more opportunities it provides for the virus to mutate. Therefore, high transmission means that more variants of the virus are likely to emerge.
The South African and Japanese versions of the mutated CCP virus strains have been reported in South Africa and Japan, respectively.
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