Saturday (Jan. 30) was the second day of the WHO virus source investigation team’s visit to Wuhan. They spent almost the entire day visiting the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, where Wuhan first admitted patients with the new coronavirus.
The team ended its two-week quarantine period on Thursday and began its investigation into the development of the outbreak in Wuhan on Friday. They first visited the Hubei Provincial Hospital for Integrative Medicine in Wuhan’s Jianghan District. Zhang Jixian, a doctor at this hospital, was identified by the official Chinese Communist Party media as the first to report the New crown outbreak.
However, Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, is regarded by the public as a hero in the fight against the Epidemic. His hospital is the closest to the South China Seafood Market, where the outbreak was concentrated. After discovering that the New Guinea virus was highly contagious, Li sent the news to friends and Family through social media to alert them. Li Wenliang’s actions in alerting the public were pursued and severely disciplined by the public security authorities.
Panel member Peter Daszak tweeted that the visit was “an important opportunity” to speak directly to the health care workers who are on the front lines of the fight against the epidemic at a critical Time.
Panel member Marion Koopmans tweeted, “Just got back from a visit to Treasure Pool Hospital. This hospital specializes in infectious diseases and was the first designated hospital in Wuhan to admit patients with the new coronavirus. Heard similar things there as I did from our ICU doctors.”
The experts did not speak to the media as they left Jinyintan Hospital. Reuters said reporters were kept at a distance from the experts.
The WHO panel’s activities on Saturday were tightly controlled by the host Chinese side. The experts were not allowed to have contact with the media or to talk freely to people in the community. Sources said all those who spoke to the panelists were designated by their superiors and all had to follow what they could and could not say and how to say what they were asked to say.
The panel also visited the Wuhan exhibition on sealing the city against the epidemic after visiting Jinyintan Hospital. Wuhan was completely sealed off on January 23 last year, with air, rail, road, public places and all communities under strict control and more than 10 million residents grounded at Home. The closure lasted 76 days and was gradually lifted on April 8.
In Wuhan, the team is planning to visit several hospitals and the South China Seafood Market, where the first cases were reported, as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and several laboratories under the Wuhan CDC, the WHO informed on Thursday on its official Twitter account.
The WHO team’s trip to China was a difficult one, as the trip was repeatedly delayed by the Chinese side. The Chinese Communist Party officials have been able to blame other countries in order to avoid world recriminations, while the key locations of the earliest outbreaks have been tightly sealed off and the virus research conducted by Chinese scientists has been censored centrally and not allowed to be published without the permission of the relevant State Council agencies.
As a result, the outside world has been skeptical about whether it was for the team of experts to enter the key sites this time. Mike Ryan, WHO’s emergency chief, said earlier this month that the organization did not want outsiders to have high expectations for the investigation. “There’s no guarantee (the investigation will yield) answers,” he said.
The communist virus outbreak has affected all countries in the world, with more than 100 million cumulative infections and more than 2.2 million deaths worldwide.
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