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The World Health Agency has sent two experts to China, however, it is never known how much access they have. First they’ll have to go about 40 weeks.
By Javier C. Hernandez and Amy Qin
Chinese officials welcome a vi through a team of experts sent to Beijing through the World Health Organization to directly analyze the source of the coronavirus as evidence that rustic is a culpable and transparent global power. But the W.H.O. Research. it will probably take several months at most and could delight in delays.
For starters, there are logistical headaches. China has placed the complex team of experts preparing the ground for a broader investigation under a four-day general quarantine, forcing them to do a little in their detective paintings remotely.
“Clearly, the arrival and quarantine of Americans and remote paintings don’t seem to be the ideal way for paintings, yet our best friend respects installed threat control procedures,” said Mike Ryan, WHO’s emergency response leader, at a press conference. Friday. He said it would be weeks before a full team can also travel to China.
WHO. The investigation comes when China is facing a foreign backlash, adding from the United States, for the first time the downstream game and not involving the virus, which emerged in December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
For weeks, China had fiercely resisted requests from other countries to allow independent researchers on its territory to analyze the origin of the pathogen. Beijing has also tried to deflect blame by suggesting, without evidence, that the virus may also have reached elsewhere.
Now officials are proclaiming Beijing’s reaction to the epidemic as a genre for the world and attacking for “evading its responsibilities” in the global combat opposed to Covid-19.
The Trump administration, which has tried to divert attention from its vain reaction to the pandemic, has criticized the W.H.O. investigation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said he hoped it would be a “whitewashed investigation in reality.”
As relations between China and Western countries worsen due to military, technological, industrial and human rights concerns, experts fear that Beijing is hunting down discanopia to limit the scope of studies so as not to embarrass the government.
“The absolute political landscape is never very conducive to independent clinical research,” said Wang Linfa, a virologist in Singapore who participated in a W.H.O. study the SARS outbreak in China in 2002 and 2003. “I’m sorry for the team members.”
The Chinese government first covered the SARS outbreak, but Wang said he was then willing to collaborate with foreign experts. This time, he said, the W.H.O. Research can also be symbolic on a giant component, as the broader geopolitical climate can also make Chinese experts reluctant to the percentage of valuable research.
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