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2020-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak: German intelligence service

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.

During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.

It took until the end of January before the WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention. Because of China’s delay, the world wasted four to six weeks it could have used better to counter the virus from spreading, the BND concluded.

Germany’s Robert Koch Institute also said that China failed to reveal all relevant information at the outset of the epidemic, leading it to turn to the BND for advice, according to a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung quoted by CNA.

In a response to the German media reports, Chinese diplomats said the opposite was true, arguing that the communist country’s handling of the virus saved time that was then wasted by other governments.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 08:23|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Saving face?
Or a move to "level the playing field"?

Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-10 09:54|| 2020-05-10 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Embrace the power of "and".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:59|| 2020-05-10 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Infogalactic:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ) (born 1965) is an Ethiopian academic, public health authority and politician who has served in the government of Ethiopia as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2012. Previously he was Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012.

As Minister of Health, Tedros was able to form a close relationship with most global health key players including former American president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .

He was also member of several academic and global health think tanks including the Aspen Institute [1] and Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Tedros was named as one of the 50 people who will change the world in 2012 by the UK Wired Magazine.

They were only eight years off.

He stressed (during his candidacy for WHO DG charger) that he will bring a fresh perspective to the WHO ...

That's for sure.

So, as you can see, everything is just fine. Go back to sleep now.

Posted by charger 2020-05-10 14:57|| 2020-05-10 14:57|| Front Page Top

Note: The lady in the specs is Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-05-10 23:27|| 2020-05-10 23:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I am sure glad that Wikipedia had that Simplified Chinese in there.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 23:32|| 2020-05-10 23:32|| Front Page Top

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