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Beijing – China claims to support research by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The investigation must be done in an “open, transparent and comprehensive way” after the virus is defeated, a State Department spokeswoman in Beijing said yesterday. Recently, international pressure had increased on Beijing to allow an international investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus in China. China supports the creation of a WHO committee to investigate measures taken worldwide to combat the spread of the new coronavirus. The head of the corps should take over from the WHO chief, Tedros.
Recently, China has been under increasing pressure on the origin of the new pathogen Sars-CoV-2. Several governments around the world have asked Beijing to be transparent about the origin of the pathogen. Beijing’s reaction was harsh and Australia was threatened with sanctions.
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The government of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in particular, has accused China of the origin of the cover-up of the virus. United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview last week that there was “overwhelming evidence” that the virus came from a research laboratory in Wuhan, contrary to what China said. China firmly rejects the allegations.
The WHO also described the United States’ allegations as “speculative”. The UN agency is awaiting an invitation from China to send a team of experts to Wuhan to investigate the source of the virus. However, the Chinese UN ambassador to Geneva, Chen Xu, said such an invitation could only be given if the virus was “finally defeated.” Chinese Ambassador to Germany Wu Ken said his country was open to an international investigation into the origin of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. “We support the research exchange between scientists,” Wu told Spiegel. “But we refused to put China on the quay without evidence,” said Wu. (APA, AFP, dpa, TT)
