WHO, China could have acted quicker to contain COVID-19 outbreak: Report
"WHO•중국, 코로나19 발생 초기 더 빨리 조처했어야" A pandemic response investigation team says the WHO and China could have acted quicker to contain the spread of the virus,... saying the outbreak in Wuhan was "largely hidden",... leading to the global pandemic. This comes as the U.S. and China continue to clash over the ongoing scientific mission in Wuhan. Lee Seung-jae reports. In its second report Monday,... the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said both the World Health Organization and China could have acted quicker to contain the spread of COVID-19. The report noted that its evaluation of the "chronology of the early phase of the outbreak suggests there was potential for early signs to have been acted on more rapidly". The IPPR added it was "clear" that "public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January 2020." The independent panel also slammed the WHO,... noting it did not hold its emergency committee until January 22nd, 2020,... and failed to issue the highest alert level by not calling the outbreak an emergency in a timely manner. The WHO has faced harsh criticism since the start of the pandemic,... especially from U.S. President Donald Trump,... who accused the agency of being a "puppet of China." With the expert team of investigators in Wuhan aiming to trace the origin,... the United States called on China to allow the WHO's expert team to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in Wuhan, drawing a rebuke from Beijing. The U.S., which has previously accused China of hiding the extent of the initial outbreak,... called for a "transparent" investigation,... while criticizing the terms of the visit,... under which Chinese experts conducted the first phase of research. China responded by calling on the U.S. to stop "any political pressure." "The virus origin studies are of a scientific nature. It needs coordination, cooperation. We must stop any political pressure." Amid the clash between the superpowers,... tracking the origin of COVID-19 may be difficult. The WHO's emergency chief Mike Ryan has admitted that it may take many attempts to fully establish the true origin. Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News. #WHO #China #COVID19 📣 Arirang News(Facebook) : / arirangtvnews 📣 Arirang News(Twitter) : / arirangtvnews 📣 News Center(YouTube) : / newscenter_arirangtv 2021-01-19, 07:00 (KST)
