Posted on 07/10/2020 4:31:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA - An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
The virus is believed to have emerged in a wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, since then closed, after jumping the species barrier from the animal kingdom to infect humans.
The two WHO experts, specialists in animal health and epidemiology, will work with Chinese scientists to determine the scope and itinerary of the investigation, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
“They have gone, they are in the air now, they are the advance party that is to work out the scope,” she said.
This would involve negotiations on issues including the composition of the fuller team and what skills were needed, she added.
“One of the big issues that everybody is interested in, and of course that’s why we’re sending an animal health expert, is to look at whether or not it jumped from species to a human and what species it jumped from,” Harris said.
“We know it’s very, very similar to the virus in the bat, but did it go through an intemediate species? This is a question we all need answered,” she said.
The WHO will have no role in an independent panel, announced on Thursday, to review the global handling of pandemic, Harris said, adding: “From now on it is completely hands off”.
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WHO and China. What a combination of liars. A sham investigation, to be sure.
Here come the 21st Century Inspector Clouseaus. They’ll make Hans Blix look like Sherlock Holmes.
That’s hilarious. WHO investigating its butt boy, China. I wonder what WHO’s findings will be when the investigation is over. [Not really.]
outrageous.
these CRIMINALS launched the Atrocity “Novel” virus.
and they have new ones.
SARS_CoV-22 is coming - if they are not shut down.
Anyone smell a setup here?
Well I’m sure whatever report comes out in the end will be 100% truthful.
And I’m going to see a hundred and eighty pounds again in my lifetime :-)
Follow the money. The US provides 25% of WHO’s budget, and Trump is pulling that away. A show investigation might bolster the odds of a US return.
I, for one, won’t get fooled again.
It will be discovered that the virus was developed by the United States military, transported to China, and released there .
“WHO and China. What a combination of liars. A sham investigation, to be sure.”
No doubt concluding the US was responsible.
we better get ready for a new pandemic
Hans played a cameo role in an unrated, made for VCR movie some years ago. I think Kim Jung Ill's father had him thrown in the shark tank for threatening to write a very serious letter to the UN about his WMD.
We pay billions to fund these organizations. Meanwhile, China simply bribes the leadership to take control of the agenda.
Anyone that thinks China is going to allow any type of full and open investigation is smoking some real bad dope.
They manufactured the damn thing...why can't people see that?
Is there a connection between the USA de-funding WHO and this sudden interest in the COVID-19 origins?
Not bad, the WHO is only about 7 months late and the real question is, do they really want to find the truth with the Chinese breathing down their necks?
Letting the fox guard the chicken coop
Who trusts WHO? Hu does, of course! Sum Ting Wong here.
One would hope that it’s already been communicated, “Any more viruses accidentally on purpose turned loose on the world, there will be consequences... with extreme prejudice.”
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