Reporter : Li Zhaoxi / Editor : Yun Tao / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/03/27/a103082884.html / Direct translation
After the World Health Organization (WHO) scientific team conducted an investigation in Wuhan, the report on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus, covi, novel coronavirus) was originally expected to be released this week. However, according to a WHO consultant, the CCP has postponed the release.
According to a report on the US conservative website "The Daily Caller" on Friday (26th), a WHO consultant said that because the CCP is reviewing the organization’s report on the origin of the CCP virus pandemic, it's release was postponed.
A member of the WHO Advisory Committee, Jamie Metzl, tweeted on Friday that he had just received confirmation that the release of the WHO report on the origin of the CCP virus was postponed again, apparently because the Chinese experts were arguing against every sentence in it. Who would think that this compromised report has any credibility?
At the beginning of this month, the WHO's interim report was cancelled because some people criticized the impartiality of its investigation team and stated that the report needs to be approved by the CCP before it is released.
"Chinese experts received the English version of the WHO report on March 17. Whether the report will be released next week depends on discussions between Chinese and international experts," a Chinese government spokesperson said on Twitter on March 19 .
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Feith wrote in The Washington Post on Monday: “WHO investigators will be unable to publish the results of the investigation."
The WHO told The Wall Street Journal that the origin report will be published "after Chinese peer review and possible revisions."
"Perhaps the final WHO report will provide evidence to prove that investigators are clearly not interested in the theory of laboratory leakage," Feith wrote. "WHO has the names of the sick researchers in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Have they been interviewed? Has the WHO seen their medical records? Have you seen the antibody test results? If so, will this information be included in the WHO report?"
Former U.S. President Trump cut off U.S. funding to the WHO in April 2020, criticizing WHO for helping the CCP to confuse the origin of the CCP virus.
In view of the opaque nature of the investigation, a group of scientists, scholars and members of Congress called for a separate and more independent investigation. On March 4, an international group of scientists and scholars called in an open letter that discovering the origin of the CCP virus is essential to better respond to the current epidemic and reduce future risks.
The WHO did not respond to a question raised by the Daily Telegraph about how Chinese officials will revise the report. It only said through a spokesperson, "Once we have a date for the report to be released, we will notify the media."
No comments:
Post a Comment