WHO team member Peter Ben Embarek arrives at the airport in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on October 10, 2021.
The head of the WHO panel, Peter Embarek, has been questioned for his claim that the virus was “very unlikely” to have been leaked from a laboratory, and then for his claim that the new coronavirus was not deliberately used in a laboratory.
The virus was not deliberately used by the laboratory questioned
In the afternoon of Feb. 12, the WHO held a briefing in which Peter Ben Embarek, head of the expert group, said that the WHO expert group went to the laboratory in Wuhan, China, and discussed with staff that the virus had not been “deliberately used” in any laboratory studying coronaviruses. “.
“The argument that the new coronavirus (also known as the Chinese Communist virus and Wuhan pneumonia) was not deliberately used in the laboratory immediately sparked concern and strong questions after it appeared in the press.
Chen Jiangang, a mainland human rights lawyer who lives in the United States, tweeted, “There is a virus, there is a lab, there is use, just not ‘intentional’, so what is that? Unintentional? Negligence?”
Some netizens questioned the WHO panel leader’s statement that “There’s no silver bullet here.”
Other netizens said, “I didn’t do it intentionally, I did it on purpose!”
“What is the subtext … you know.”
“The meaning is too deep and too shallow, metaphysical!”
Media persons: the conclusions reached by the panel are based on unsupportable
Embarek also said in the release that although the new coronavirus “could be present in samples that have not yet been processed,” from what all the labs know, “no one had seen the virus before the outbreak, otherwise the new coronavirus would have already appeared in the research paper ” – Researchers who discover a new virus will publish it immediately, a common practice worldwide.
Veteran media personality and current affairs commentator Li Linyi told the Epoch Times that Embarek’s “statement is very wrong”. “For the West, it’s true. For the Chinese Communist Party, it’s definitely not the case. Because the Chinese Communist Party is concerned about political security, national security, state secrets, so if the lab is working on these, the researchers will not be allowed to publish papers on these.”
“This person who is talking about this either doesn’t know enough about the CCP, or is playing dumb, or is deliberately misleading.” Li Linyi said.
Pompeo: Wuhan Institute of Virus Research on Coronavirus
The WHO panel arrived in Wuhan on January 14 this year to investigate the source of the outbreak, and the next day (January 15), then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement urging the WHO to pressure the Chinese Communist government to address the following three issues.
- the onset of illness in the fall of 2019 in several researchers within the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research (WIV) with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal diseases.
- since at least 2016, Wuhan Institute of Virus researchers have conducted experiments involving RaTG13 (note: beta coronavirus is a genus of virus that infects bats and is a SARS-associated coronavirus) and showed no signs of stopping before the COVID-19 outbreak; RaTG13 was the closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus) (96.2% similarity).
- the Wuhan Virus Institute’s secret links to military research. The Institute has collaborated with the CCP military on both publications and covert projects. Since at least 2017, the Institute has been engaged in classified research on behalf of the CCP military, including laboratory animal experiments.
After the CCP virus first broke out in Wuhan in 2019, various circles, including U.S. politics, questioned whether the virus was caused by a leak from the Wuhan Virus Institute, with conflicting accounts as to whether it was due to intent or inadvertence.
The virus could not have been a laboratory leak? Tadese changed his mind
On the afternoon of Feb. 9, the day the WHO panel of experts concluded its investigation and held a joint press conference with Chinese Communist Party experts, WHO panel chief Enbarrick publicly stated that it was “very unlikely” that the virus had leaked from a laboratory and recommended that the possibility not be studied; that it was “very likely” that the virus had been contracted through frozen Food. very likely” and so on. His statement is almost a repeat of previous statements made by the Chinese Communist Party.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has questioned the veracity of the report. He insisted that there was “significant evidence” that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory. He also criticized: “WHO has politicized” and “it kneels before Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, also tweeted that the WHO is acting as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party, helping to spread misinformation and inaction in the face of the COVID-19 threat. This is inexcusable and they must be held accountable.
Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Feb. 10 that the WHO ignored the Trump administration’s State Department fact-checking report on the Wuhan lab released in January.
“I think the statement that the WHO made yesterday is false.” Ratcliffe said, “I worked very hard with Pompeo to get some of the best intelligence we could before we left office a few weeks ago so that we could talk about what we know about China and COVID.”
In the face of widespread skepticism, WHO Director-General Tandezai changed his tune on Feb. 11, saying that all hypotheses about the origin of the virus were still under consideration. He said : “After talking to some members of the investigation team, I would like to clarify that all hypotheses are still open and need to be further studied.”
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