WHO team couldn’t visit Wuhan

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WHO team couldn’t visit Wuhan, for investigating the origin of COVID-19, ‘missed’ visiting Wuhan. As team from the World Health Organization did not visit Wuhan, this fuelled concern from western governments over Beijing’s commitment to identifying the source of the pandemic.

A recently concluded three-week trip to China by the two-person WHO team did not entail a visit to Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the first cases of novel coronavirus were detected in December 2019.

WHO said the team was merely laying the groundwork in advance of a full international mission to investigate the virus but it was also vague on whether this larger task force would visit Wuhan. “The WHO delegation sat in Beijing but didn’t went to Wuhan, said a senior US official.

The visit to Wuhan was significant to investigate how the virus went out of China, particularly from Wuhan. The world is watching activities in Wuhan and wants to know what went wrong that the virus spread. As the team did not went to Wuhan the hope of getting the information seems going far away.

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The route to identify the zoonotic source of the virus and the route of introduction to the human population, has been dogged by concerns over transparency and access. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said in July he believed the results of the inquiry would be “completely whitewashed”.

The ministry said China had acted responsibly by inviting a WHO team to the country while it was still in a critical period of preventing a resurgence of the virus. China has almost entirely halted the spread of Covid-19 within its border.