China’s President Xi Jinping personally requested WHO chief to dilute severity of COVID-19 outbreak – Report
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China’s President Xi Jinping had called up World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom in January to request him to downplay information about the coronavirus pandemic, Germany’s federal intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) has claimed. The allegations by the BND were reported by German publication Der Speigel.
As per the intelligence agency, President Xi had personally requested the WHO chief on January 21 to delay sending a message about coronavirus pandemic and dilute the seriousness of the threat, Der Spiegel has reported.
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The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30, according to WHO. However, it was only on March 11 that the apex global health organization declared the coronavirus outbreak as a ‘pandemic’.
The allegations have surfaced amid intense scrutiny of the WHO’s actions in the initial stages of the outbreak, with several influential policy-makers doubting the WHO’s role in letting the situation slip out of hand. Many countries, including US President Donald Trump, have cast aspersions on WHO for being hand-in-glove with Beijing and suppressing crucial information about the virus’ outbreak.
The US, formerly a leading funder of WHO’s activities, last month announced that it would be halting its financing to the WHO, with President Donald Trump stating at the time that it had “failed in its basic duty” in its response to the outbreak.
“I am directing my administration to halt funding while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump had said during a daily press briefing on the coronavirus situation on April 15.
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China’s President Xi Jinping personally requested WHO chief to dilute severity of COVID-19 outbreak – Report
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