The World Health Organization has admitted none of its specialists visited the wet market or the Wuhan laboratories in February during a supposedly fact-finding mission to China.
Margaret Harris, the World Health Organization's spokesperson, has admitted to Sky News host Sharri Markson that only three of 25 WHO experts who visited China in February actually travelled to Wuhan. The interview was part of a special investigation segment titled "What is China Hiding".
The three global members of the collective mission who went to the origin of the coronavirus in Wuhan were Bruce Aylward, Chikwe Ihekweazu, and Tim Eckmanns. Harris did not answer a question regarding whether they had sought permission from Chinese authorities to visit the wet market, instead said that the mission's focus was on learning from the response.
Furthermore, she explained that they were not looking at the origin of the virus, which is why the wet market and laboratory were not on the agenda. She also added that the disease was at its peak in February, which is why it was unsafe for WHO personnel to travel to Wuhan and investigate. The fact-finding mission commenced from February 10 until February 24, 2020.
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China is Receiving Too Much Hate
Not only are fingers pointed towards China for starting the COVID-19 pandemic, but claims have arisen that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan and that the country bleached the wet market stalls before any independent assessments could be undertaken.
Aside from that, many also accuse China of trying to cover up valuable information about the coronavirus and say that they released a false number in the country's death toll when it was actually ten times more than what they initially reported.
Officials from Wuhan said that the updated figures were the result of new data obtained from multiple sources, including records kept by and prison houses and funeral homes.
Moreover, they claim that deaths associated with the virus outside hospitals, particularly those who passed away in their homes, had not previously been recorded.
They assert that health systems were initially overpowered and cases were "mistakenly reported". Additionally, they add that some instances were counted more than once and others could have been missed entirely. Conjointly, they said that an initial shortage of testing capacity meant that many patients who contracted the virus were not accounted for.
The Coronavirus' Origin Still Unclear
Although many believe that it came from China, there has been no actual proof of the virus' original location in the country.
According to scientists, the virus naturally emerged in bats. Yet, the U.S. Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, and other spectators have pointed fingers at an institute that is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. According to Pompeo, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is just a few miles away from where the exotic wet market was.
Furthermore, the Chinese government said that any claims on the coronavirus being released from a laboratory were "unfounded and purely fabricated." Geng Shuang, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, noted the institute's director, Yuan Zhiming, in saying that the laboratory rigidly implements biosecurity protocols that would prevent the release of any pathogen.
