China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid's origins

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/china-blocks-entry-to-who-team-studying-covids-origins

China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid's origins
Officials say visas not yet approved for World Health Organization delegation due to visit Wuhan
Sarah Boseley Health editor
Tue 5 Jan 2021 20.08 GMT
Last modified on Tue 5 Jan 2021 23.59 GMT

China has blocked the arrival of a team from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that their visas had not yet been approved even as some members of the group were on their way.

The WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his dismay and said he had called on China to allow the team in. “I’m very disappointed with this news, given that two members have already begun their journeys, and others were not able to travel at the last minute,” he said.

“But I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials. And I have once again made made it clear that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team.”

The WHO has been attempting to send in the team of global experts from a number of countries for some months. It has been talking with Chinese officials since July. Scientists have long said it is essential to find out how the virus jumped species into humans...

 

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French scholars blocked by WHO investigation mission to China: Don't let China shirk its responsibility

In a special article published in Le Figaro, French Asian expert Ni Yaling called on China not to forget that China was indirectly responsible for the 1.8 million dead in the epidemic and that China should not be allowed to pass the border easily.

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[Central News Agency] The World Health Organization's virus traceability investigation team was unable to proceed because it failed to obtain a Chinese visa. French Asian expert Valerie Niquet called in a special article in Le Figaro that China should not forget that China is indirectly responsible for the 1.8 million dead. , Can't let China pass easily.

Experts from the World Health Organization wanted to go to China to investigate the origin of the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) virus, but they were delayed without obtaining a visa at the last minute of departure.

The statement made by the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying at the regular press conference on the 6th is due to the fact that sporadic and partial cluster infections have been superimposed in China recently, and the risk is extremely high, so the release is temporarily suspended.

Ni Yaling wrote in a special article published in Le Figaro on the 8th that the ambiguous attitude made the WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has always supported China and tended to believe in Chinese claims, also publicly expressed his right. Beijing is "quite disappointed."

According to the report, the hide-and-seek conducted by China is reminiscent of Iran's history of obstructing the UN International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of nuclear equipment and radioactive materials.
As Francois Godement, an expert on Asian issues at the Institut Montaigne, said on Twitter: "It should be obvious now that China still rejects the WHO investigation, even if the risk is not high... This is because they have some It's shameless."..

She pointed out: "The Chinese system has not changed and will always be so corrupt. There is no health control in the market. The Chinese continue to sell all kinds of animals to earn a meager income. They have not learned the lesson. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that similar incidents will not It happened again, that is, one or two years later, a new virus broke out."
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