Covid-19: White House demands a "clear and thorough" investigation into the origins of the virus

While a WHO team is awaiting the green light on Thursday to begin its investigations in China, the task may be particularly difficult.

For several months now, Beijing has been seeking to exonerate itself from all responsibility in this global Covid-19 epidemic.

As China was the first country to report COVID-19, it has been criticized for being the source.

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- Chinese Embassy in France (@AmbassadeChine) November 30, 2020

But "it is imperative that we get to the bottom of things in the appearance of the pandemic in China", has already warned Wednesday the spokesman of the White House, Jen Psaki.

The United States "supports an international investigation which in our opinion must be clear and thorough", she added.

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WHO experts in China to investigate the origins of the virus

The ten international investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in Wuhan in mid-January.

After a period of quarantine, they must begin their investigations this Thursday in the first city in the world placed in confinement on January 23, 2020.

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This visit is ultra-sensitive for the Chinese regime, anxious to avoid any responsibility for the epidemic which is practically eradicated in China.

Relatives of Covid-19 victims in Wuhan have accused authorities of shutting down their group on social media and of pressuring them to refrain from speaking out.

The conclusions of the investigation scrutinized

Washington will "assess the credibility of the investigation report once completed" and draw on "the information gathered and analyzed by American intelligence" on the subject, has already assured Jen Psaki.

The WHO field investigation then began, the worldwide number of officially recorded cases exceeded 100 million.

And, according to the WHO, the new variants of the coronavirus continue to spread: the British has spread to 70 countries and the South African to 31.

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Unheard of since the start of the pandemic, 18,109 deaths were recorded worldwide on Tuesday.

In total, the Covid-19 has killed 2.16 million since its appearance at the end of 2019 in Wuhan.

"We are fighting the fight of our life", but "we can defeat the virus - and we will defeat the virus" and its variants, assured Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical manager at the WHO for the fight against Covid-19.