Politicians And Experts Today Blasted China For Refusing Entry To Members Of A World Health Organization WHO Team Being Sent To The Country To Investigate The Origins Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
Politicians and experts today blasted China for refusing entry to members of a World Health Organization(WHO) team being sent to the country to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
Number 10 described the move as 'disappointing', insisting that it was vital the probe happens.
Tory MP and founder of Britain's China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat, accused Beijing of 'shameful behaviour'.
He said the failure to investigate 'puts everyone at risk of a repeat, and kynghidongduong.vn particularly those who are closest - the Chinese people.'
And Sari Haven, of the Mercator Lạc Sơn Đại Phật Institute for Lạc Sơn Đại Phật China Studies think-tank, dismissed the regime's claim that a 'visa issue' led to the team being denied entry.
She said: 'Of course the decoy narrative becomes more difficult to maintain when the WHO team is snooping around.'
Even the WHO's chief, in a rare critique of the Beijing regime, warned he was 'very disappointed', especially given the fact that 'two members had already begun their journeys'.
It comes amid growing suspicions of a cover-up in China, where Covid-19 is thought to have originated at the end of 2019, although its source remains bitterly contested as officials battle to control the narrative.
The first cases of the virus that has brought the world to its knees were identified in Wuhan in late December last year, and linked to a seafood market.
Beijing agreed to allow 10 experts into the country in the summer after many months of negotiations.
But today Chinese officials insisted a date for the trip and 'details' of the visit still haven't been arranged. The WHO said it is in contact with Chinese authorities.
Pictured: Workers in protective suits in Wuhan, China, blocking entry to the seafood market.
It is believed to have been where the Covid-19 outbreak, that sparked the pandemic, began
Tory MP and founder of Britain's China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat, accused Beijing of 'shameful behaviour'. And Sari Haven, of the Mercator Institute for China Studies think-tank, dismissed the regime's claim that a 'visa issue' led to the team being denied entry
The World Health Organization (WHO) has named the 10 scientists it is sending to coronavirus ground zero Wuhan to probe the origins of the disease.
It is thought the virus may have jumped into humans at the Wuhan seafood market (pictured)
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