On Tuesday, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World health body indicated dismay over China for not settling the permissions for the arrival of the team that was supposed to look into the origin of coronavirus.
It is found that members of the international scientific team on Covid-19 virus origins began travelling from their home countries to China but Chinese officials have not still finalised the obligatory permissions for the team’s arrival in China.
The official visit was as per arrangements jointly decided and agreed between the WHO, the Chinese government and countries for which the team was meant to travel to Wuhan.
Ghebreyesus said that he is disheartened with this news given that two members already started travelling and others were not able to travel at the last minute. He had made clear to the senior Chinese officials that the mission is a priority for the WHO and the international team.
Beijing had before said it would give the WHO’s expert team full ingress to investigate the origin of coronavirus.
Some leaders including Donald Trump have questioned Beijing’s actions during the outbreak. He has blamed the Chinese government for this plague and even called it ‘ChinaVirus’.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for continuously spreading deceptive information on Covid-19, and interfering the investigation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in finding out about the origin and spread of the virus.
China and Australia are not sharing healthy relations since April when Canberra enraged Beijing by proposing an international inquiry into the origins of the pandemic.
Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported, citizen journalist Zhang Zhan was detained in May for her live stream reporting from Wuhan over Covid-19 have led to four years of imprisonment in late December.
As stated by Johns Hopkins University, the current coronavirus cases across the world stand at over 85 million cases and 1.8 million deaths.
