asks China to share data

GENEVA.— The World Health Organization (OMS) rekindled the controversy on the lack of transparency of the authorities of China on the origin of the virus that caused the pandemic Covid-19assuring that if he does not share information, the beginning of that health crisis will remain a mystery, so he is practically asking him to share his data.

“Unless China shares its data, the origins of Covid-19 “will continue to be completely unknown,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at his weekly press conference.

“China’s collaboration is absolutely critical to find the origins, including information on the first cases, on the Huanan market (where those initial infections were recorded) and on the work carried out in the Wuhan laboratories,” said Tedros, who warned that until there is complete data “all hypotheses are up in the air.”

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The world does not know the origin of Covid

During the pandemic, The theory that the coronavirus escaped accidentally was considered from a Chinese biosafety laboratory, which according to WHO experts who visited the Asian country to investigate the origins of the pandemic was the least likely hypothesis but not completely ruled out.

The controversy surrounding the origins of the virus has for years pitted China against countries such as the United States, whose authorities went so far as to ask the WHO to investigate as a priority the possibility of the pathogen escaping from a laboratory, something that caused outrage in the Chinese communist regime.

Fear of origins of new pathogens with the potential to cause epidemics

Tedros put the issue back on the table on the occasion of the publication yesterday Wednesday of a guide so that Member States know what issues to study when analyzing the Origins of new pathogens with the potential to cause epidemics or pandemics

“Understanding when, where and how pandemic outbreaks begin and epidemics is very difficult, but it is a scientific imperative to try to avoid future ones,” Tedros stressed.

In Brussels, the Court of Auditors of the European Union considers that the community bloc is not fully prepared to face serious public health emergencies and must learn from Covid-19 in aspects such as resorting to “more reliable techniques” to report infections and deaths.

“At this stage it would be premature to say that the EU is fully prepared,” he said.

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