Various media, including the BND, conclude that China withheld important information at the start of the corona pandemic.
- China has probably withheld information at the start of the coronavirus pandemic .
- Several media and intelligence agencies found that the genetic code was only published with a week's delay.
- The world lost so important time in the fight against the virus.
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Munich - The corona virus probably spread from China all over the world. In the meantime, several million people have been infected and hundreds of thousands have died. There have been numerous allegations against China for a long time. US President Donald Trump even accused the country of intentionally growing the virus. However, not many people shared this opinion. However, China seems to have failed. Apparently, according to the AP news agency, important information was deliberately withheld for more than a week at the start of the corona pandemic . This is evident from documents that have been evaluated by AP.
Coronavirus: China was probably holding back important information at the start of the pandemic
The Chinese authorities probably deciphered details such as the genetic code of the virus faster than expected. The genetic code allows researchers to test medication * and vaccine * . However, the transfer of the information was strictly controlled so that only the Chinese laboratories could be supplied with the data.
By the World Health Organization WHO has been China initially praised publicly or for the quick release of the genetic code. Internally, however, there were concerns that China did not share enough data.
But not only AP reached this conclusion, but also the BND. According to the Spiegel , the Federal Intelligence Service had learned of events between China and the WHO at the end of January that delayed the measures against the spread of the coronavirus because allegedly important information was deliberately withheld. The same findings emerge from an investigative TV report by the US news channel CNN.
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- CNN (@CNN) May 25, 2020Coronavirus: China did not publish genetic code, although it was known
According to the world , Gauden Galea , WHO’s top representative in China, said, “We are now at the point where we are notified 15 minutes before CCTV reports.” CCTV is the state-owned television station in China.
The new virus, Sars-Cov-2 , was probably decoded in China on January 2. Two other Chinese laboratories also managed to decrypt the virus on January 5. However, there was no official warning from China. The WHO urged loud Focus online China to give more information award. However, WHO has no real leverage to get information from its member states.
It was only on January 11 that Professor Zhang's genetic code for the virus was published in Shanghai. The Chinese authorities didn't follow until a day later. On January 30, the WHO finally declared a global emergency. By then, the virus had been able to spread unhindered. According to the BND, the world has lost four to six weeks in the fight against the corona virus.
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The Chinese authorities only made public a warning that the corona virus was dangerous at all on January 20. The WHO then sent a team to Wuhan to research the new virus. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was very reluctant to criticize the authorities: "China has already done an incredible job of restricting the transmission of the virus to other countries." He described her as a "puppet" of China and made her responsible for the spread of the coronavirus . As a result, the United States terminated its cooperation and ceased all payments to WHO. The reputation of the World Health Organization has suffered significantly during the Corona crisis .
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