British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (Feb. 15) that world powers should sign a global treaty on pandemics to ensure proper transparency following the outbreak of a new coronavirus (Chinese communist virus) that originated in China.
Asked by Reuters who was responsible for the lack of transparency regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson said, “I think it’s fairly obvious that most of the evidence looks like it suggests that the disease originated in Wuhan.”
“So all of us need to know as much as we can about how this (disease Epidemic) occurred and the questions that people are asking about human and animal infectious diseases. I think we need as much data as we can get.” He said.
Johnson said he would be enthusiastic about signing a global pandemic treaty in which signatories would sign a joint agreement on transparency and agree to provide any data on pandemics in the future.
“I think what the world needs to see is universal agreement on how we track data on pandemics of zoonotic infectious diseases,” he said.
“I think one of the attractive ideas we’ve seen in the last few months is the proposal for a global pandemic treaty.” Johnson said.
Recently, WHO experts gradually revealed that the Chinese side refused to provide the WHO panel with early patient and epidemic data from Wuhan, and the two sides had several heated arguments. The experts said the Chinese side’s refusal to provide early outbreak information made it difficult for the WHO experts to find clues needed to help prevent another outbreak of a similarly dangerous virus in the future.
Reuters reported that Australian infectious disease expert Dominic Dwyer, a member of the investigation team, said on Saturday (Feb. 13) that the Chinese Communist Party had refused to provide all the data requested by the team.
The White House said on Saturday that the U.S. was “deeply concerned” about the WHO report on the virus and called on the Chinese to release data from the early stages of the outbreak.
In a statement, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said it is critical that the report be “independent and not manipulated by the Chinese (Communist) government.
The White House statement urged the Chinese to release data from the initial stages of the outbreak.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab expressed similar concerns to those of the United States in an interview with the BBC on Sunday (Feb. 14).
Asked about the U.S. response, Raab told the BBC, Reuters reports, “We are all concerned about whether they are getting full cooperation and getting the answers they need, so we will be pushing for it [the investigation] to have full access to all the data it needs to be able to answer what I think most people want to hear about the outbreak. “
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