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NO, NO, NO: The President of China has not asked Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (pictured) to withhold information about the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the Chinese president has been trying to make the World Health Organization (WHO) wait to send a global warning about the coronavirus. The WHO denies the allegations.
There, Spiegel wrote Friday that the German intelligence service has information that on January 21, Chinese President Xi Jinping asked WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to hide information that the virus could be transmitted. between humans. Furthermore, according to the WHO newspaper, he asked to wait to send a global warning about the virus.
Late Saturday night, the WHO strongly opposed it.
– I never spoke on the phone
– Dr. Tedros and President Xi did not speak on the phone on January 21. They have never spoken on the phone, the organization writes in a press release sent to VG and other media around the world.
The WHO emphasizes that China confirmed the person-to-person transmission on January 20, the day before the alleged phone call.
This is how the virus can infect humans:
“Such erroneous reports are a distraction from the efforts of the WHO and the world to combat the covid-19 pandemic,” continues the WHO.
When Spiegel’s writing on the alleged conversation was in the same case Sunday afternoon, the day after WHO released the press release.
He received early criticism for the secret
Although the health organization denies that the Chinese president has asked the WHO director to keep the information secret, the Chinese regime has also been widely criticized for its secrecy since the virus was first spread in the Wuhan metropolis.
Among other things, Dr. Li Wenliang should have been accused of spreading false information and causing riots when he alerted colleagues that several patients had an unknown virus. The Wuhan police must have made him sign that they understood that he would be tried if he continued to spread information about the virus.
More than five months after the first recorded outbreaks in Wuhan, China has officially recorded 4,637 deaths as a result of covid-19, according to the VG survey on Sunday afternoon.
Due to China’s secrecy in the early stages of the virus outbreak, the WHO has also been criticized for the fact that Director Ghebreyesus has repeatedly stated positively about the way China treats the virus.
After meeting with President Xi Jinping on January 28, the WHO commander praised China’s handling of the virus. Among other things, he said he believed the Chinese regime had been very open in the fight against the virus, despite reports of secrecy.
Two days later, the WHO director said in an official statement that the rate at which China discovered the virus was “indescribable.” In the same statement, he said that there would have been many more cases outside of China had it not been for the efforts of the Chinese government.
