Report and missing WHO dossier, Speranza’s staff response: “It is not an official document, it was never transmitted to the ministry”

24 hours after the service is broadcast on Rai3 Report “The conscious fig leaf“- by Giulio Valesini and Cataldo Ciccolella – in the file ofwho (read it below) on Italy’s response to coronavirus published and then removed from the site last May, they continue to discuss the content of the emails between the deputy director of the WHO, Ranieri War, and the research coordinator Francesco Zambon. “Don’t get involved with me in this,” Guerra wrote to his colleague on May 11 -. Tonight we go to Report’s teeth and we cannot be suicidal (…) Now I block everything (…). So I can’t get out. Avoid nonsense. Thanks and sorry for the tone. Ranieri. “The broadcast claims that Guerra pushed to correct that document before its publication. The reason? He claimed that Italy would never update its pandemic plan, limiting itself to “reconfirming in 2017” that developed in 2006. The fact is that Guerra was director general of Prevention of Italian Ministry of Health from 2014 to 2017, so the plan updates, in those years, also depended on him. But that is not all. As documented by Report, the WHO deputy director in an email also mentioned the minister Roberto Speranza. “One of Speranza’s strengths has always been the ability to refer to WHO as aware daughter (supposed to mean ‘leaf’, ed) fig for sure unpopular decisions and criticize (…). If even WHO puts itself in a critical role not agreed with the political sensitivity of the minister (…) I don’t think we are doing a good service to the country ”.

Requested by Ilfattoquotidiano.it to provide gods clarifications on his relations with Ranieri Guerra and with the leaders of the WHO, the Minister of Health preferred Do not answer. However, his staff reports replica which was posted to the TV show Rai3, also available online. The press release states that, according to Speranza’s press office, the dossier on Italy’s handling of the pandemic in the spring is not “an official WHO document and it was never broadcast to the Ministry of Health, which therefore has never nor evaluated, nor commented. Any information in this regard comes from non-institutional sources“It is also specified that Italy has a”prevention and response to Covid-19”Prepared by the technicians of the ministry, the ISS, the Superior Council of Health, the Spallanzani of Rome and others. Then there is the crux of the “pandemic plan”: the press release says that “WHO, ECDC and Italy refer to the Pandemic influenza plan which is a public document that can be consulted on the website of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC. “Finally, the ministry announces that the expense contribution that our country paid in 2020 to the World Health Organization amounts to almost 14 million euros.

The fact is that many of the questions that the reporters of Report they have placed the minister before issuing of the service were not answered. “The minister was informed” of the “sudden removal“From the dossier” on the WHO website after about 24 hours of the publication? Do you know the reasons for this? It is one of the questions that the program raises. “It seems to the minister that the report has been removed because an objective critical image Italian ‘preparation’? “And then again:“ The minister has completed the writing of a updated pandemic plan? “. Doubts that have not even been clarified by Guerra. In fact, as shown on television, the deputy director of the WHO remained for several minutes silent while journalist Giulio Valesini asked him for an account of what happened, removing it in turn with his smartphone. Trying to rebuild the whole thing will now be there. Bergamo prosecutor, which – after the complaint of Committee of victims’ families ‘We will denounce’: investigate to understand if Italy really had a pandemic plan at the time of the first wave and when its last update dates back. The magistrates already have disputed War as a person informed of the events (not investigated). Those who have not been heard, however, are Zambon and his fellow researchers, for whom the WHO has invoked diplomatic immunity. The purpose, the organization argues, is to protect “the impartiality and objectivity of WHO.”