After the international team of experts went to China to study the source of the Epidemic, the U.S. government spoke out to question its conclusions, to which WHO Secretary General Tan Desai had to say today that it was an independent study by experts, stressing that “it was not a WHO investigation, WHO only coordinated it”. A netizen, “News/Truth,” tweeted, “Wouldn’t it be better to say it was a temporary job?”
On the U.S. questioning the conclusions of the retrospective investigation in China, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was not WHO’s main responsibility. The news said that the international expert group went to China to study the source of the epidemic, the U.S. government has spoken out to question the process of reaching conclusions, which the WHO Secretary-General Tan Desai came out to defend, which is the independent study of experts, WHO only in the coordination.
To China to investigate the origin of the new coronary pneumonia virus international expert team held a press conference in Wuhan on February 9, for the origin of the virus, seafood market transmission, the role of bats and Wuhan Institute of Virus “leak virus” and other issues published preliminary results of the investigation, set off controversy. In this regard, Tan Desai said yesterday at the WHO online press conference, regardless of the conclusions of the future summary of the investigation report, these are the experts independent research.
According to Tan Desai, only two of the international panel of experts from the WHO, the other 10 experts from 10 agencies in different countries. WHO does not guide them on what to do, it is the experts who provide the independent report. He said he had heard repeatedly that this was a WHO study and survey, but “it is not”, stressing that it was not a WHO survey, but an independent study, with WHO only coordinating.
However, the WHO has recently taken the initiative to speak out for the international team of experts, Tan Desai in early January this year for some experts have taken a flight to China on the way, but still did not get a Chinese visa, expressed great disappointment, said he himself is in continuous contact with Chinese officials to make it clear to China that this task is a priority for the WHO and the international team of experts.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed deep concern Feb. 13 about the way the preliminary results of the international experts’ investigation were released and questioned the process by which the WHO reached its conclusions. He stressed that the findings should be independent and free from Chinese interference or falsification. Sullivan said, “This (investigation) report should be independent, and the experts’ conclusions should not be subject to interference or manipulation by the Chinese government.”
The international expert panel announced its preliminary findings at a press conference in Wuhan on Feb. 9, including that the South China Seafood Market was only one of the outbreak sites and not the only one; in addition there was no evidence that the virus was present in Wuhan before December 2019. The day attended the press conference of the WHO expert panel leader Ben Embarek (Peter Ben Embarek) said the possibility of leakage from the Wuhan virus laboratory is very low, directly indicating that therefore will not be studied again from the relevant direction, another refers to the Food cold chain is one of the possible ways of transmission of the virus, worthy of further investigation.
According to the report, as China has long stressed that the virus leak from the Wuhan laboratory is a conspiracy theory, but also refers to China’s many reports of the virus detected from the cold chain food packaging, making the wording of the panel is questioned whether the tendency of China’s big foreign propaganda.
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