People wearing protective masks walk at a street market almost a year after the start of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on 7 December 2020. File photo/Reuters/Aly Song
Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, 16 December 2020
The international team of World Health Organisation seeking investigation into the origin of Covid-19 virus will go to China in January, the global health body announced on Wednesday.
“I can confirm that this will take place in January,” WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson told AFP when asked about reports that the expert team, which includes epidemiologists and animal health specialists, would finally go to China next month, reported news agency AFP.
The global call to investigate the origin of the virus, suspected to be in China’s Wuhan, has been echoed by scientists and medical experts as the scourage by coronavirus disease has claimed millions of lives and upended economies across the world.
The coronavirus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December, 2019, before spreading across China, and triggering a global pandemic.
China has rejected the claims for almost a year now on the reports of virus originating from its central city. Recently, a top German biochemist quoted by Chinese state media as saying that the coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan has called it “pure propaganda” and said there is no evidence to suggest that the virus did not come from the central Chinese city.
China has denied that it deliberately hid information about the spreading virus in January or earlier.
A year into the Coronavirus pandemic, China has effectively controlled the spread of Covid-19 within its borders, putting in place efficient lockdown and contract tracing measures and conducting mass testing for the virus for every small outbreak.
At the same time, Beijing, in the face of global criticism, has been trying to change the virus-origin theory and shift the blame outside. Several theories are in circulation – the origin could be the Indian subcontinent including India and Bangladesh or Saudi Arabia, Italy, the US and the US military, or imported frozen packaged food.
In August this year, the agency’s chief and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said the “international team” will deploy to Wuhan, the city where the pandemic is believed to have erupted late last year. Tedros said “terms of reference” have been drawn up by the WHO and China, but he did not specify.
Its just semantics. WHO is China’s accomplice so also ICJ, UN and all these other organizations that are supposed to stand for justice and protect people. UN is part of the deep state.
WHO has had difficulty in being allowed into China to investigate about the root cause of the virus. Finally, the CCP has allowed as per international demand to have investigators on the ground where it all started.
For the last few months, the Chinese have been trying their best to divert attention from China to Italy, to India and even Australia as the source of the Chinese virus. They already accused America of bringing the virus by January last year.
They will leave no stone unturned to divert accusation on others and will never acknowledge that the virus originated in China. In fact, Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan claims that the virus created in Government controlled Laboratory and she had witnessed a cover-up operation when she working in Wuhan.
The CCP has destroyed all the documents pertaining to the initial findings of the virus. For 12 long days, the authorities even told people its not contagious despite the fact that people were dying.
There are Chinese netizens who are demanding culpability but all of them are silenced and many have simply disappeared. In order to buy influence in the WHO, the CCP donated $30 million after Trump withdrew from WHO.
Therefore, the inspection will be a well choreographed propaganda blitz to sanctify China as the virus incubator and delegitimise the international opinion of Chinese wrong doing by deliberate obfuscation of facts and silencing of all Chinese citizens speaking the truth.
With Chinese bullying of the WHO, it will be anything but a fair investigation. It will only attempt to redeem Chinese claim of innocence. The CCP regards its citizen’s divulgence of sensitive information as national security threat and the victims like citizen journalist Chen Qiushi and many others have disappeared!