The United States will pay more than $200 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the end of the month, following President Joe Biden’s reversal of a Trump-era decision to exit the organization, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Feb. 17. “This is a key step forward in fulfilling our financial obligations as a…
WHO’s Dismissal of Possibility that Virus Leak From Wuhan Lab ‘Disingenuous’: Ratcliffe
Former director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Feb. 10 criticized the “disingenuous” findings by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the CCP virus, saying U.S. intelligence didn’t back the international body’s dismissal of the possibility that the virus may have leaked from the research center in Wuhan. Peter Embarek, a Danish…
WHO Adviser: Wuhan COVID-19 Probe ‘Done By Chinese Authorities’
World Health Organization (WHO) adviser Jamie Metzl has said that the international body’s investigation into the origins of the CCP virus was in fact conducted by Chinese authorities. The probe, which also considered whether the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology that had been studying coronavirus spread from bats…
WHO Investigators Say CCP Virus Was ‘Circulating Widely’ in Wuhan by Late 2019
An investigator with the World Health Organization (WHO) said the CCP virus was “circulating widely” in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Lead WHO investigator Peter Ben Embarek told CNN that his team found signs of a wider outbreak in the Hubei Province city in late 2019, noting that there were at least 13 strains of the…
Guinea Declares New Ebola Outbreak
CONAKRY—Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast—the first resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013–2016. The patients fell ill with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial in Goueke…
UK Says It Shares US Concerns Over WHO COVID-19 Mission to China
LONDON—British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday he shared concerns about the level of access given to a World Health Organization COVID-19 fact-finding mission to China, echoing criticism from the United States. The White House on Saturday called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, saying…
China Refused to Provide WHO Team With Raw Data on Early COVID Cases, Team Member Says
SHANGHAI—China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began. The team had requested raw patient data on 174 cases that China had identified from the early phase…
WHO Chief Suggests Wuhan Lab Virus Leak Theory Needs Further Study
The head of the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) said that some origin theories about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus, need to be further investigated, coming after the leader of a WHO team in Wuhan, China, dismissed the need for more investigation about whether the virus leaked from…
Australian Scientist on WHO Mission Thinks Virus ‘Started in China’
An Australian microbiologist appointed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) team investigating the origins of the CCP virus has said he thinks the contagion originated from bats in China. Prof. Dominic Dwyer, a microbiologist from Sydney, told 9News after returning home from the month-long investigation that there was “very limited” evidence it originated outside China. “There…
Australian Scientist Advising WHO Thinks Virus ‘Started in China’
An Australian microbiologist appointed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) team investigating the origins of the CCP virus has said he thinks the contagion originated from bats in China. Prof. Dominic Dwyer, a microbiologist from Sydney, told 9News after returning home from the month-long investigation that there was “very limited” evidence it originated outside China. “There…
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