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[#LatestAntiEpidemicLogic]

1. The #WHO expert team visited China, but China did not allow American experts to join the group. WHO accepted.

2. Then China finally allowed American experts to join the WHO expert team, but they were only allowed to visit Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu, not the hardest hit areas - Hubei Province and Wuhan. The Chinese reason: it was the critical period of the epidemic situation, reception capacity was limited. WHO accepted.

3. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom highly appreciated China's tremendous efforts to prevent and control the epidemic, and admired President Xi Jinping's outstanding leadership and firm political confidence, and emphasized that the visit of WHO experts to China was not because of Chinese insufficient capabilities, but to show the unity and cooperation of both parties.

Conclusion: WHO is already an indivisible part of China.

Image : Eat News
Source: Simon Shen Facebook
https://bit.ly/32n8XcE

#SimonShen #Xi #Tedros #ChinaInfluence
#Newspaper

As pandemic looms, world's top disease fighter engages Xi in delicate quest for
cooperation

//Tedros is also engaged in a delicate diplomatic dance with a Chinese government that’s sensitive to perceived slights and a big financial supporter of countries across Africa, including Ethiopia, where he also served as foreign minister and a high-ranking member of its former ruling coalition.

//Tedros needs the support of China’s all-powerful President Xi Jinping to increase on-the-ground access for the world’s best infectious disease experts.

//On Jan. 30, Tedros, after initially hesitating, declared an international emergency. Now, with new hot spots emerging in Japan, South Korea and Iran, Tedros’s team may need to declare a pandemic if the virus keeps spreading.

//Tedros has consistently backed China, despite evidence that the government was slow to react, silenced scientists at home and resisted cooperation with international disease-trackers. After weeks of wrangling, a WHO response team finally appears headed to Hubei province, where the outbreak erupted.

//Tedros has shown skill in dealing with the complexities of China’s authoritarian government.

//“He has an unusually good understanding of how the Chinese look at the world and how they look at their internal dynamics.”

//All told, the country received $24.5 billion in Chinese contracts and investment from 2005 through last year

//If countries follow WHO guidance and maximize this window of opportunity, then we can overcome this crisis.

Source: Japan Times
https://bit.ly/2wC9k78

#WHO #Tedros #Coronavirus
#Newspaper

Japanese netizens: As Japan believed WHO, it once overlooked the outbreak

(4 Mar) Regarding the global outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the number of new cases outside China have reached 9-fold than that of China, amongst all the countries, the situation on South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan, were the most worrying. He also called on the world to pay attention to the virus and emphasised that it was still possible to contain the virus, all countries must put this mission as a priority.

The number of new cases reported by China to WHO was 206, the fewest since 21 January.

When the speech of Dr Ghebreyesus reached Japan, many Japanese netizens were enraged by it. Some put the blame on WHO and criticised WHO on overlooking the outbreak. Some opinions pointed out that Japan at first believed the data and the suggestions of WHO, the government, medical scholar and the general public were too optimistic on COVID-19. Moreover, the restriction on Chinese visitors was one step behind, resulted in the widespread.

While many countries enforce the 14-day quarantine, Japan set the number to 12-day. Japan even followed WHO’s suggestion and reduce the duration to 10-day. According to an anti-epidemic personnel who once worked on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, he followed WHO’s instruction, wore mask and gloves to work. Still, he was infected, unfortunately.

Some Japan netizens said, “(they) completely fail to acknowledge the importance of his (Ghebreyesus’s) speech. Regarding the outbreak, it is important to take strong measures at the beginning, so that the impacts can be minimised. However, due to the objection from this director, the outbreak becomes inevitable. It is entirely a man-made disaster.”

Another netizen was even more discontented, “WHO praised China but criticised Japan. It is wrong to say that the situation in Japan is worrying. WHO can be disbanded.

Some also pointed out, “WHO lacked crisis awareness. It is WHO created today’s situation. At this moment, it is useless to say anything. If there is still a possibility to contain the virus, then please tell us the solution.”

Source: China HKET
https://china.hket.com/article/2580219?r=cpsdfb

#WHO #Tedros #Japan
#OpinionArticle

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' daily demonstration of how far one can go as CCP's mouthpiece

1. "The number of new cases reported in the rest of the world has exceeded the number of new cases reported from China.... It's what's happening in the rest of the world that's now our greatest concern." This statement completely downplays China's responsibility for causing the global epidemic to get out of control because of its coverup and mishandling of the initial outbreak. Naturally, it also downplays the WHO's accountability for underestimating its lethality in the first place.

2. 'He warned other countries affected by the epidemic that it can get out of control if they do not "move swiftly and contain it".' This is in line with Chinese propaganda's interpretation that COVID-19 is becoming "imported from outside". It rationalises the official position that countries around the world should not close their borders to Chinese or foreign visitors who have been to China.

3. 'According to China's experience battling the epidemic, "with the right measures, it can be contained. That's one of the key messages from China."' This tries to prove to the world that the 'Chinese model' is the 'gold standard' for handling the epidemic. Every country should learn from China. But because they are unable to 'learn' its entire system, China will rise on top.

4. "This virus does not respect borders. It does not distinguish between races or ethnicities. It has no regard for the country's GDP or level of development." This continues to publicise political correctness and downplay China’s role as the source of the outbreak. It continues to export its responsibilities to other countries.

5. "No country should assume it won't get cases. That could be a fatal mistake"; "Every country needs to be ready to detect cases early, to isolate patients, track contacts, provide quality clinical care, prevent hospital outbreaks and prevent community transmission." On the one hand, China uses the gold standard to judge other countries' poor handling of the epidemic. On the other, it uses the minimum standard to measure its own responsibilities, which led the outbreak to become a global disaster and the world, "a community with a shared future for mankind".

Editor’s Note: "a community with a shared future for mankind" is actually a quote from Zhao Lijian, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson for China.

Source: Stand News, Itn News(Quotes), (29-Feb)
https://bit.ly/2PSkY4P
https://bit.ly/2v1NvxB

#WHO #Tedros #CCP #Coronavirus #ChinesePropaganda #ChineseModel
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

Darwinism in the Pandemic

//And Europe, including Switzerland, crammed full of elites, is a complete mess under this pandemic.
 
//Wuhan Pneumonia is a major reshuffle of global intelligence. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are ranked the top four respectively in terms of community response. The people from those areas did not have any convoluted arguments. They just acted quickly to protect themselves once they encountered the virus.
 
//Taiwan is not part of the WHO, or in other words, the Triad [organised crime syndicate]. The Taiwanese people, including President Tsai Ing-wen, knew from the beginning that the African Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was a liar.
 
//It became the world's most learned in the specialisation of tropical diseases. Hong Kong should have been the worst affected after the Handover. However, Hongkongers experienced over 20 years of political resistance. From the protests against Article 23 to the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-ELAB Movement, Hongkongers continually underwent rebirth in the wake of war and trauma, making them highly sensitive to distress.
 
//In terms of confronting the virus, the quality of awareness and response within the communities of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan is better than any European country. This is a completely new phenomenon.

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/Darwinism-in-the-Pandemic-04-10

Source: Apple Daily

#Taiwan #Korea #Japan #Epidemic #Italy #WHO #Tedros #SelfHelp #Darwin
#OpinionArticle

The Trilogy of CCP’s global domination: Big sprinkles of money, big trades and great manipulation

(4 Apr) Edward Yau (the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of HK) criticised a RTHK journalist’s question to a senior executive leadership member of WHO (note 1) for the ‘sin’ of breaching One Country Two Systems (note 2) Yau’s action was clear- to show his absolute loyalty to CCP, which is out of the same motive of Lam-Cheng’ policy of no border closure to PRC. (note 3) The competition to show political correctness of ‘loyalty’ to the Central government came from the Cultural Revolution era all the way to erode One Country Two System (note 4). Indeed, HK is more and more Mainlandised.

The world is aware that WHO is favourably biased towards CCP. WHO has misled the world since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. WHO covered up the severity of the virus for a long period of time to oppose imposition of travel bans and border closures to people from China. The Director General of WHO Ghebreyesus did not go to China to understand the actual situation of the outbreaks there. He just went to flatter Xi Jinping in exchange for $20 million payment to remain silent.

//WHO has lost creditability.

//CCP spent a lot of money to woe African dictators who came and gone like meteors through economic inducements.

//CCP builds up its own circle of friends through the money bait policies in the third world over decades of time.

//They are not alert of CCP’s invasive influences to international organisations like WHO, WTO, Interpol and the World Bank. CCP works to displace the integrity of these organisations that are formed and operating on a rule-based governance world order with their ways.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/The-trilogy-of-CCPs-global-domination-Big-sprinkles-of-money-big-trades-and-great-manipulation-04-11

Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/2JZFWv0

Further reading:
Trump aides consider creating alternative to WHO
https://politi.co/2ViXasJ

#CultureRevolution #WHO #Tedros #OneCountryTwoSystme #SharpPower #Mainlandised #PRCForeignPolicy #Taiwan #InternationalOrganisation #ChinesePropaganda
#Newspaper

Many netizens on behalf of Taiwanese apologized to Tedros
Taiwanese Investigation Bureau found Chinese Netizens did it

(11 Apr) Tedros, director of WHO, said before that he had been subjected to racist comments and death threats for months. His speech caused a lot of controversy. Then, many messages on behalf of Taiwanese apologizing to Tedrso appeared quickly. After Taiwan Investigation Bureau started an investigation, it was found that it may be done by Chinese Netizens.

Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) held a press conference lately and published an investigation report showing that many posts in twitter about “I am Taiwanese, I am ashamed of the racial discrimination and maliciously attacks to Tedros by Taiwanese. On behalf of Taiwanese, I would like to apology to Tedros and black population. I beg for his pardon.” A large amount of similar messages were found, therefore MJIB believed it was manipulated by foreign forces, and decided to investigate and find out the source.

They found a Twitter account of a broadcast website was the first one to leave message related to apologize for different European and American media. After that, a Chinese radio twitter account copied that message as an apology template, and even provided photo of Taiwanese IDs to urge other twitter users to use them to pretend as Taiwanese and publish apology tweets. Other netizens found it was interesting. MJIB has already found nearly 100 similar posts, and they would continue to investigate this incident, and urged people to be cautious to identify fake news on the Internet.

Source: Unwire HK
https://unwire.hk/2020/04/11/fake-post-apologize-who-tedros/fun-tech/

Further reading:
How is WHO Director-General elected?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16705
'If you're black you can't go out': Africans in China face racism in Covid-19 crackdown
https://bit.ly/3b5hLr4

#Tedros #African #FakeNews #Apology #Twitter #Taiwanese #ChinesePropaganda #Racism
#Newspaper

Petition to Support Taiwan’s inclusion in WHO
127 European politicians have signed a petition to support Taiwan's inclusion in WHO after Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organization's Director-General, accused Taiwan of criticizing his way to manage the epidemic was racially influenced. Participating politicians praised Taiwan's handling of the epidemic, and said its exclusion from WHO is unfair and incomprehensible.

Full article: Taiwan News, (11-Apr)
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3914545

#Taiwan #WHO #Tedros #Petition
Biased belief in CCP hurts the world: WHO is the accomplice 7/7

On the other hand, WHO rejected every different view regarding the interpersonal transmissibility of the virus from other Infectious disease expert sources from Taiwan, HK and creditable medical journal Lancet. This kind of partial listening and biased belief completely is inconsistent with the principles of neutrality, objectivity, and science-based, that should be adhered by an international organisation. WHO’s biased stance is irresponsible to the international community. The emphasis of WHO about the “non-transmissibility” of the virus loosens people’s gird of vigilance about the dangerous pandemic. In this context, it is objective to say that WHO has contributed to the spread of the contagion globally.

Lastly, let’s take a look at a humorous moment during WHO 146th session of the Executive board meeting. The representative from Thailand, expressed his criticisms on WHO’s misjudgement on the severity of the coronavirus, via a sense of honour and sarcasm, making the rest of the representatives giggle. Here is what he said, “Chair(person), the travel restriction novel virus in China has been violated.” He added, ”If we implement travel restriction and have to quarantine, we have to quarantine Director General Dr Tedros, who just came back from China and cancel this meeting! Now the many attendees – including those from countries that implemented travel restrictions – have shook hands and even hugged Dr Tedros. They are all vulnerable, except me. Dr Tedros declined to hug or shake hands with me in the last 3 or 4 days. Particularly you Chair(person), who sits next to him all the time would be the most vulnerable. We need to bring back global confidence, solidarity and stop the panic immediately.“ He facetiously proposed to immediately call a global meeting of WHO staff and experts in China, Wuhan specifically. He remarked to giggling audience, ”We can all appreciate the most charming Yellow Crane Tower, built almost 2,000 years ago, with very few tourists. If we meet in Beijing, it would be the best time to visit the Great Walls and the Forbidden City with very few tourists and at low costs.” He even added, “with my wife’s permission, I am happy to pay half of my annual pension to support this meeting and join it with my own expense.”

Source: HKCNews, (04-Apr)

Further reading:
The Trilogy of CCP’s global domination: Big sprinkles of money, big trades and great manipulation
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19447
Thai WHO Representative Questions WHO's Double Standard and Slant Towards China
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18593

#Coronavirus #CCP #WHO #Tedros #Statecenorship #Thailand #ChinesePropaganda
#NetizensVoice #Analysis

Ethiopians petitioned against Ghebreyesus' candidacy and presidency when he was elected as the Director General of WHO in 2017

(15 Apr) When Ghebreyesus was elected as the Director General of WHO in 2017, Ethiopians launched a petition campaign at Change.org to oppose his candidacy. After he was elected, there was petition calling for his resignation. (1)

He is an irresponsible criminal to many Ethiopians.

The Change.org petition described “Tedros Adhanom, a politburo member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that has been ruling Ethiopia for the last 25 years is in the inner circle of the regime well known for its systematic patterns of political repression and egregious human rights violations against Ethiopian citizens.” (Politburo member usually refers to a senior communist party cadre member.) *

//That was similar to what the brutal suppression HK police under HK-CCP regime did to the HK protesters on the streets.

//The candidate for Director General of a prestigious organization such as the WHO should not only be a person of high personal achievement but should also embody the highest adherence to internationally recognized human rights standards.

//Not only he violated human rights, he deliberately let many Oromians died from Cholera.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Ethiopians-petitioned-against-Ghebreyesus-candidacy-and-presidency-when-he-was-elected-as-the-Director-General-of-WHO-in-2017-04-17

Source: Hsin Lien Facebook page
shorturl.at/AFMRV

#WHO #Tedros #Totalitarian #Racist #Genocide #Petition #Ethiopians
#EditorialColumn #WHO #OneChinaPolicy #Apr21
WHO's One China Policy or No China Policy?

If U.S. President Trump is politicizing the coronavirus, then Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom is putting the blame on racism for the mass number of coronavirus deaths caused by his misdirection.

By now, countries around the world have felt the consequences after the WHO had ignored the warning sent from Hong Kong and Taiwan in December 2019. When Trump criticizes China for covering up the coronavirus crisis, according to Trump's rhetoric and style it might be more accurate to call it a 'stereotype' rather than 'racism' as China has insisted. However, Tedros' accusation of Taiwan for its 'racist' attack seemed more of a distraction to sway people from his scientific failures and administrative misconducts.

In the case of Taiwan, Yvon Pierre Loufoua, a crosstalker performer of Congolese descent living in Taiwan, spoke from his life experience that the name-calling acts described by Tedros sounded unreal to Taiwan society and culture. Yvon also saw "China's fear of Taiwan's growing international power" through Tedros' agenda to suppress Taiwan in the game of global politics by marginalizing his own ethnicity and identity.

After all, over the past few months, Tedros has demonstrated what scientific positivism is: Even when experts from Hong Kong and Taiwan ceaselessly suggested ways to stop the epidemic, Tedros insisted that no countries should close their borders with China. Moreover, it was not until March that the WHO finally called the Wuhan pneumonia a pandemic and began considering Europe as the hardest hit area outside of China. Maybe Tedros simply attaches great importance to what he considers as empirical data, as he was only willing to react after a large number of coronavirus patients died outside China.

By inference, Tedros must have had evidence to support his claims of Taiwan attacking him with racist comments and death threats--although Tedros has yet to make any details public.

Let us hope that this health expert from the WHO knows about information and cyber security---especially when some 'great and powerful' nation has perhaps been supplying intelligence analysis.

At this point, we should always remind ourselves that we live in an era of information warfare, where there are Chinese reporters posing as Hong Kong and Taiwanese reporters and asking questions at White House press conferences.

Finally, here comes the paradox: If Tedros is a follower of the 'one China' policy upheld by the WHO, he would have handled the matter like his colleague did: WHO advisor Dr. Bruce Aylward rejected Radio Television Hong Kong's (RTHK) question on Taiwan by hanging up the phone during an interview--he demonstrated how Taiwan should not even be brought up outside the China framework according to this logic. Hypothetically, if Tedros was really attacked by Taiwan, by the same policy does it mean that the Chinese government was behind it? Along the same line, should Tedros better lodge a complaint to the PRC's Foreign Ministry instead of directing it to the Taiwan government and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen?

#Taiwan #PRC #NoChinaPolicy #Racism #Tedros

Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19681
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder says Tedros

(19 Apr) When Trump withheld funds to the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Union (EU) expressed its disapproval, stating that it would allow "other nations to take advantage of that truce.”*

The EU’s statement is absurd. The US is the biggest contributor to the WHO and, through the Ethiopian Director-General, the "other nations" have long since taken advantage of it. The US gave so much money while the WHO lied and led to 37,000 deaths. With the US' refusal to maintain funding, at least they are no longer paying for people to die.

If the EU likes to keep paying and let people die, that is well within their rights. The US not paying is also fully within their rights. The US has neither the obligation to participate in such "international affairs" nor the desire to lead the world. China and Western leftists oppose US supremacy. Now that Trump is following their wishes, what is the fuss?

Full translation: https://telegra.ph/Chip-Tsao-Beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-says-Tedros-05-05

Source: Apple Daily News
https://bit.ly/2z9c9hu

#WHO #Tedros #EU #Trump #FreeMarket #Coronavirus #Diversity
#Newspaper

WHO denies coronavirus cover-up phone call between Xi Jinping and Dr.
Tedros

//Der Spiegel, a German news outlet, published a report that determined Xi and Tedros spoke by phone on Jan 21 and the Chinese leader asked the WHO chief to “hold back information about a human-to-human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning”

//The WHO released a statement on Saturday denying the thrust of the article

//There is well-documented evidence that China tried to cover up the spread of the coronavirus, muzzle whistleblowers, intimidate doctors, mislead the WHO, and block outside health experts

//At least one study indicated that if the Chinese government had acted more quickly, the coronavirus’s global spread would have been greatly reduced

//The WHO did not declare the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic until March 11

//The U.S. intelligence community reportedly believed the Chinese Communist Party downplayed the severity of the initial coronavirus outbreak and that China continues to mislead about the infection rate and death toll inside the country

Full Article: Washington Examiner
https://washex.am/2ApUenr

#coronavirus #Tedros #Xijinping
#pandemic #WHO
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

On Darwinism and Theology

(24 Apr) With the world's population at 7.7 billion, it is time for nature to take its course.

The last inception of human civilisation occurred during the Renaissance at the beginning of the 16th century. Before the Renaissance, the plague brought in by Mongol barbarians concluded Europe's Middle Ages, which spanned a millennium. Since then, for five hundred years up to the present day, the West laid the basis to lead the new era of human civilisation.

//Huang's distinctive genes of tyranny, Mao Zedong's 28-year rule came into fruition. The whole population experienced infighting and mutual cannibalism. Economic production came to a standstill. Such was the great fortune of Western civilisation.//

//Despite still being modelled after the one-party dictatorship, [the country's] huge market was used to lure the West. //

//The virus of "political correctness" and the greediness of Wall Street's globalisation led to the globalisation of the Wuhan pneumonia.//

//Darwinism confirms that many stupid Western "elites" were subject to their own greed and foreign lies, which included the witchcraft of the WHO's Tedros. //

//From the West's initial prejudice against face masks, one could foresee that mutual destruction was inevitable. //

//Taiwan. Its foundations of hygiene awareness and hospital systems were superior. Along with its experience in handling China, they were already used to survive long term with closed borders.//

//"globalisation" will disintegrate. //

//There will be a new world order, a new era of civilisation.//

https://telegra.ph/On-Darwinism-and-Theology-05-14

Source: Apple Daily

Further reading:
Act now to shape a better world:
the choice is ours - Yuval Noah Harari

https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19618
Looking Down at the “Universal” Karma - Chip Tsao
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19494

#Darwinism #Theology #globalisation #civilisation #Trotsky #Lenin #Marx #WearingMask #Taiwan #Tedros #CCP
US calls on WHO to Invite Taiwan to Attend the World Health Assembly

Unites States Mission in Geneva urged Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the General Director of WHO, to invite Taiwan to attend the World Health Assembly next Monday.

The delegation issued a statement saying that they encouraged WHO to work harder to provide Taiwan with more meaningful cooperation opportunities.

The World Health Assembly next Monday will discuss the global COVID-19 epidemic situations. The delegation thinks that inviting Taiwan to participate is necessary as Taiwan has not recorded a confirmed case of COVID-19 for more than 200 consecutive days, and many countries praised its anti-epidemic performance.

Hundreds of parliamentarians from Europe and Latin America have recently submitted joint signatures to the WHO, requesting Taiwan to attend the World Health Assembly and even join the WHO.

Source from: Now News #Nov06

https://news.now.com/home/international/player?newsId=411941&refer=Share

#Taiwan #UnitedStates #WHO #COVID19 #Tedros
Chinese Research says India and Bangladesh is the Virus Origin, WHO: "Highly Speculative"

Wuhan Virus Pandemic broke out in Wuhan last year in late December. The total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases is approaching 62 million across the world so far.

China has been claiming in recent month that the source of the pandemic may be from the United States, France or even Italy, denying the allegation of 'Wuhan Virus originates in China'. Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences publishes a report through Social Science Research Network (SSRN), indicating that the Wuhan Virus "probably" comes from India and Bangladesh, transmitted from monkeys to human, and discovered in Wuhan after half a year. However, the report has not undergone any peer review and, therefore, cannot be considered as a rigorous academic finding.

Mike Ryan, an Epidemiologists at the WHO, said on 27 November, 2020 that it is "highly speculative" to say the coronavirus not emerged from China. Ryan said at a video meeting in Geneva, "From a public health perspective, it is clear that the Epidemiology investigation should begin at where the human cases first emerged, followed by understanding the cases outbreak and the outbreak process." He added that the WHO had always intended to send researchers to the Wuhan food market to probe the virus origins further.

However, until now, no experts from WHO has been to Wuhan for on-site research. During the mission in July, experts only stayed in Beijing for three weeks. While being asked if any experts would go to Wuhan for the investigation, Director-General of WHO, Tedros, finally confirmed the visit, which would be the first time since the pandemics have started for a year.

#WuhanVirus #COVID19 #China #India #Bangladesh #WHO #MikeRyan #Tedros #ShanghaiInstitutesforBiologicalSciences #SocialScienceResearchNetwork #SSRN

Source: Stand News #Nov28

https://bit.ly/37iQfqu
WHO Experts Went to Wuhan to Investigate the Origin of COVID but were Refused for Entry. Tedros: Very disappointed

WHO stated on 5th January that China had not approved the entry of the expert group for the investigation on the origin of Wuhan Virus. WHO Director-General Tedros rarely indicated that he was very disappointed with China and stated that two experts have already set off to Wuhan but reported that Chinese officials did not approve their entry permit. He emphasised that China and the WHO had a joint agreement in December last year on this investigation arrangement.

Tedros said at a press conference in Geneva, “I was very disappointed with this news. I have contacted senior Chinese officials, and have also indicated again that this mission was prioritised in the WHO and the international team.” He clearly stated that WHO is “eager to complete the task as soon as possible”, and China has even assured him that Beijing will speed up internal procedures and let the expert team make an arrangement as soon as possible.

#China #WHO #WuhanVirus #TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus #Tedros #COVID19

Source from: The Stand News #Jan06

https://bit.ly/2Y1X7mJ
#Censorship
#China censors #ZeroCovid debate after #WHO criticises policy

//China’s censors scrambled to wipe out online debate over its zero-Covid strategy on Wednesday after the World Health Organisation (WHO) criticised the country’s hardline approach to crushing the virus.

China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy and enforces some of the most stringent virus controls anywhere in the world...

Those restrictions have trapped most of Shanghai’s 25 million people in a lockdown with no clear end date, while Beijing has also gradually coralled many of its residents indoors as it battles its biggest outbreak since the pandemic began.

On Tuesday WHO chief #Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged China to change tack, saying the approach “will not be sustainable” in the face of new fast-spreading variants.

The intervention prompted China’s army of internet censors to race to snuff out his comments.//

Read more:
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/05/12/china-censors-zero-covid-debate-after-who-criticises-policy/

Source: Hong Kong Free Press #May12