According to a new report, the CIA, the American spy Agency believes that China pressured the world health organization, forcing it in the beginning of the outbreak to postpone public warning about the coronavirus. In Beijing, accusations of this kind categorically reject.
a CIA report, which reports Daily Mail, citing Newsweek, claimed that China has threatened to cease cooperation with the investigation the who coronavirus, if the organization will declare the outbreak an emergency health.
To Beijing again there are allegations that while in January a new virus spread unnoticed across the globe, China has been building medical equipment and protective gear, made in the USA and other countries.
the same charges of concealing from the world the scale of coronavirus ugrozi create a stockpile of protective equipment have sounded against China and the recently published report of the Ministry of internal security of the United States.
the contents of the document the CIA was confirmed to Newsweek by two intelligence officers of the United States.
This is the second report by Western intelligence services, indicating that China has forced the who to minimize epidemic risks. Recently in the magazine Der Spiegel published a link to the data of German intelligence, the BND, according to which on 21 January the Chinese leader, XI Jinping himself has reportedly exerted pressure on the Director General of who of Tedros Adhanom of Ghebreysus, asking him to hide information about transmission from person to person and to defer the pandemic alert.
“According to the BND, because of the information policy of China was lost four to six weeks to fight the virus around the world,” says Der Spiegel.
After the publication of the who issued a statement, calling the allegations “unfounded and incorrect”. The organization claims that its CEO had no contact with XI Jinping, 20, 21 or 22 January, but that he met with the Chinese leader in Beijing on January 28.
who declared the coronavirus of international significance emergency of public health on January 30.
At the end of last week China issued a lengthy document, in which the points investigated numerous accusations of the West against Beijing because of the pandemic.
Required a rigorous scientific process to determine whether a new virus to spread from person to person, described in this document. Already on 9 January, the Chinese expert group confirmed to media that the disease agent was previously identified as a new coronavirus.
on January 20, a group of high level experts of the National Commission of health informed the media that the new coronavirus can be transmitted from person to person. That day, remind in China��e, in the United States was not informed of any confirmed case.
who published a warning about the potential risk of transmission of the virus from person to person on its web site on January 22.
In Beijing reminded that China sent a “powerful warning” on January 23, announcing the quarantine in the 12-million city of Wuhan (the day in the United States reported only one case of infection).
on January 27, the world health organization increased from moderate to high level of risk that is COVID-19 at the global level.
At the same time the United States became the first country to have taken the personnel of the Consulate General of Wuhan, and the first government, announcing the restrictions on entry for all Chinese citizens and foreign nationals who were in China during the previous 14 days.
And only in the beginning of March, the us government seriously recognised the danger and seriousness of the spread of the virus in the country, said the Chinese refutation of the accusations against Beijing.
