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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, revealed today that The Chinese authorities have for now prevented the arrival of some experts from the mission that must investigate the origin of the coronavirus, so he was “very disappointed” with Beijing.
“In the last 24 hours, several of the experts began their trip to China from their countries, but today we learned that the Chinese authorities did not finalize the necessary permits for the arrival of the team, so I am very disappointed,” said Tedros.
“Some of them at the last minute, couldn’t travel to China”added the Ethiopian expert, who for more than a year had praised Beijing for its collaboration in the pandemic, something that had been criticized by governments such as the United States.
The director general added that the WHO is in contact with the authorities of the Asian country to “make it clear that the mission is a priority” and affirmed that China has assured him that they will speed up the procedures to facilitate the start of the mission.
This mission, as reported by the WHO in November, is made up of scientists from The United States, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Vietnam, Germany, and Qatar.
Some are linked to that Geneva-based agency, others to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and others to the World Organization for Animal Health.
The mission should travel, among other places, to the city of Wuhan (central China), where the first cases of COVID-19 were detected, and in principle its objective is to find the possible animal origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and through which channels of transmission to the human being.
The organization of this mission has been delayed for months, and has been surrounded by secrecy, both from the Chinese authorities and the WHO itself.
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