Jan. 9, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| The Chinese regime delayed the visit of a team of experts from the World Health Organization, WHO, who had planned to arrive in Wuhan City on January 5 to investigate the origin of COVID-19. | |
| The WHO's Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a press conference in Geneva on January 5 that the trip had been arranged by the WHO and the Chinese government. | |
| And members of the international scientific team had already begun departing from their home countries over the last 24 hours. | |
| Today, we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalized the necessary permissions for the team's arrival in China. | |
| I'm very disappointed with this news given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute. | |
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| Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's health emergencies program, added that China had not yet granted needed approvals for members of the international team, including visa clearances. | |
| We hope that this is just a logistical and bureaucratic issue that can be resolved very quickly, he said. | |
| Tedros said he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials, emphasizing that the mission was a priority for WHO and the international team. | |
| According to Tedros, he was assured that China is speeding up the internal procedures for the earliest possible deployment. | |
| Feng Chongyi, a professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and an expert on China issues, said that he has no expectation for this WHO investigation. | |
| I don't think they have the genuine wish or the ability to seek the truth. | |
| It's likely that they're just putting on a show to improve their credibility, to claim that they're not always in line with the CCP. It's just for show. | |
| Tedros followed the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda, claiming that the virus does not spread from person to person. | |
| WHO has since faced storms of criticism for delaying its announcements of a public health emergency. | |
| When COVID-19 began to spread all over the world, Tedros repeatedly praised the CCP for having effectively contained the virus, which sparked anger worldwide. | |
| Over one million people signed an online petition calling for Tedros' resignation from the WHO. The international community wants to hold Beijing accountable for the spread of the virus. | |
| For months, Chinese authorities did not allow international experts to go to Wuhan for an investigation. | |
| However, due to mounting pressure, the regime allowed the WHO to send a group of scientists to China in July last year. | |
| But they only stayed in Beijing for three weeks and never made it to Wuhan. | |
| One year is a long time. | |
| Think about it. | |
| If the expert team isn't allowed to investigate until now, Beijing has had enough time to destroy all the evidence it's been concealing. | |
| The regime doesn't want anyone to know the truth. | |
| Some Wuhan residents say they are also eager to find out the truth, but they do not have a channel to speak out and voice their concerns. | |
| It has been more than a year, and the situation is still the same. | |
| There is no place to reason with the authorities. | |
| We cannot say much. | |
| Anyway, the CCP always handles issues in this manner. | |
| We feel hopeless. | |
| The Chinese authorities have been blaming other countries as the source of the virus. | |
| In the past week, both Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying claimed the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world. | |
| According to internal documents obtained by the Epoch Times, the CCP's expert team sent a letter in February last year requesting the local authorities in Wuhan to screen people who have symptoms of the virus from October to December 2019 and to provide information on the number of deaths caused by COVID-19. | |
| Reports from Wuhan hospitals revealed that there were COVID-19-related deaths in October last year, much earlier than the first publicly reported case of the disease. | |
| China is again experiencing multiple outbreaks of the CCP virus in various cities. | |
| On January 6, the local government in Shijiazhang City, Hebei Province, ruled that all its 11 million residents must take COVID-19 nucleic acid tests within the following three to four days. |
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