A field hospital in Beijing on December 20, 2022, while Covid-19 continues to spread
On December 31, AFP quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ninh as affirming that the country had shared information about Covid-19 “without holding back anything”, after the World Health Organization (WHO) ) called on Beijing to provide more data to understand the origin of the disease.
“Five years ago… China immediately shared information about the Pandemic and the virus gene sequence with WHO and the international community,” the spokesman told reporters at a regular press conference. on the afternoon of December 31.
“Without holding anything back, we have shared our experience in prevention, control and treatment, making a great contribution to the international community’s anti-pandemic work,” according to Ms. Mao.
According to the above spokesman, China is also the only country that organizes experts to repeatedly share traceable progress with WHO.
This month marks 5 years since Covid-19 cases were recorded in Wuhan city (Hubei province, China). On this occasion, WHO called on China to share data and access to better understand how Covid-19 started.
“We continue to call on China to share data and access to understand the origin of Covid-19. This is an ethical and scientific requirement,” WHO said in a statement.
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This organization warns that the world cannot prevent and fully prepare for future epidemics and pandemics without transparency, sharing and cooperation between countries.
Covid-19 has infected more than 700 million people, killed more than 7 million, devastated economies and overwhelmed the health system. During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO repeatedly criticized China’s lack of transparency and cooperation.
A group of experts led by WHO and joined by Chinese colleagues launched an investigation into the origins of the pandemic in early 2021.
In a joint report, they supported the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, was transmitted from bats to humans, possibly at a market. Investigators have not returned to China since then, and WHO officials have repeatedly asked the country for more data.
“WHO’s international experts have repeatedly said that during their trip to China, they went to all the places they wanted to go and met all the people they wanted to meet,” Ms. Mao said at a press conference on the afternoon of December 31. .
