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Covid-19: WHO team still deprived of visa for China

 

Showdown in sight between China and the World Health Organization (WHO). While a team is due to arrive in the country to investigate the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, its members have still not obtained all the necessary visas. China explains that negotiations are underway. “The pandemic in the world is still very serious, and China is also doing everything possible to prevent and control it,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters. It is “not only a question of visa”, assured Hua Chunying. The spokeswoman said that China and the WHO were continuing discussions about “the precise date and modalities of the expert group’s visit.”

A little over a year after the discovery of the first cases in the Chinese region of Wuhan, ten eminent scientists, chosen by the WHO after a long selection process, are to travel to China to try to trace the origins of the virus to to know how it was transmitted to humans. But this visit is highly sensitive for the Chinese regime, anxious to avoid any responsibility for the epidemic which has killed more than 1.8 million people on the surface of the globe.

On Tuesday, the head of the UN agency announced that the WHO team responsible for the investigation was on its way to China, but that it had not received all the necessary authorizations. saying “very disappointed”. “Today we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalized the necessary permits for the team’s arrival in China,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. “I am very disappointed with this news, given that two members had already started their trip and others were not able to travel at the last minute”, he added in a very rare movement of humor to against Beijing. At the end of December, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party congratulated themselves on their “extremely extraordinary” success in overcoming the Covid-19 epidemic.

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