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Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a meeting in Beijing on January 28, 2020. (Photo: China Daily)
Newspaper Der Speigel On May 8, sources with Germany’s Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) said that Chinese President Xi Jinping asked WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to keep Sars-CoV virus infection confidential. . -2 from person to person and delay in giving global warnings about this disease.
In a statement issued on May 10, the WHO confirmed that the information was “false and unfounded.”
“Mr. Tedros and President Xi did not speak on January 21 and the two never spoke on the phone. That inaccurate information has distracted and harmed the effort by WHO, as well as the world, to end the Covid-19 pandemic, ”the WHO statement said.
According to Telegraph, China publicly confirmed the transmission of the Sars-CoV-2 virus from person to person on January 20. Der Speigel He did not explain why President Xi Jinping asked the WHO Director-General to keep the information published in China confidential. It was not until March 12 that the WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic.
On May 9, China’s Foreign Ministry posted a 30-page, 11,000-word article on its website to counter what Beijing called 24 “unwarranted accusations” by some US politicians. leading the way China responds to the disease.
The article even cited media reports that Americans had been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus before the first case was confirmed in Wuhan City. However, there is currently no evidence to confirm this information.
China is also accused of pressuring the European Union (EU) to postpone and change a report with content detrimental to Beijing. United States President Donald Trump announced on April 15 that he stopped funding the WHO after criticizing the agency for mismanagement that led to an outbreak of the disease and Chinese bias.
Thanh Dat
According to Telegraph
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