Joe Biden’s government denounced that the Chinese regime “failed to provide sufficient data on the origin of the coronavirus”

The United States repeated that on Sunday The Chinese regime has not provided ‘sufficient data’ on the origin and subsequent spread of the coronavirus, which is contracted by more than 28 million Americans.

“They are about to publish a report on the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, which we have questions about as we do not believe that China has made enough original data available on how this pandemic started to spread, either. in China as afterwards. in the whole world “, explained Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden, on the program “Face the Nation”, off the chain CBS News.

On February 9, the World Health Organization (WHO) mission to investigate the coronavirus in Wuhan ruled out the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory, when it was possible that the virus might have come to China from China . other countries through the frozen refrigeration chain.

Given the controversy created by the announcement of the mission, the WHO’s Director of Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan, replied on February 15 that the purpose of that visit was not to “explore China”, but to learn lessons for the future.

But Sullivan pointed that out “The only way to have a science-based study is to have access to all the data and to know not only (…) what happened during this pandemic, but also to be able to prevent future pandemics.”

“I can’t say how Covid-19 came to this world,” added the White House official. All I can do is ask WHO to do their best. “

In this context, he defended that WHO research “should be left in the hands of scientists and experts so that they can conduct it without any interference from any government,” as “this is the only way we will know the origin of it. is ”.

He also referred to a two-hour conversation Biden had with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Feb. 10.

“President Biden has raised the issue of Covid-19 and the need for all countries to take responsibility for helping protect the world, including China”Sullivan objected.

The national security adviser clarified that Washington “is unable to determine where the pandemic came from,” which he attributed in part to “the lack of sufficient transparency on the part of the Chinese government.”

And when asked about the administration of now-former President Donald Trump, he said that “didn’t take surveillance of the pandemic as seriously as it should”.

The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic, according to the independent census of Johns Hopkins University, with more than 28 million infected and nearly 500,000 dead.

One of the members of the World Health Organization mission sent to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus denounced that the Chinese authorities have refused to provide information. The Australian Microbiologist Dominic Dwyer He explained that they had requested the raw data of 174 cases identified in the first phase of the pandemic, in Wuhan, in December 2019, but only a summary has been provided.

The requested “linear lists” provided information on the questions patients were asked, their answers and how those answers were processed, Dwyer told the Australian press: “This is normal in an outbreak investigation.”

This original data is of particular importance as only half of these 174 cases were exposed to the Wuhan market, where it is speculated that the contamination could have originated. “That’s why we insisted,” said the Australian microbiologist. And he added, ‘I can’t say why they didn’t give them to us. Whether for political reasons, times or when the going is tough … but if there are other reasons I don’t know them. You can only speculate ”.

Dwyer acknowledged that the Chinese authorities have supplied a large amount of material, But the raw data from the patients should be in the final report of the fact-finding mission. “The WHO people certainly believe they have received a lot more data than in previous years, so in itself it is progress.”

The team arrived in Wuhan, which is believed to be the epicenter city of the pandemic, on January 14 and, after two weeks of quarantine, visited places such as the Wuhan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first known group of infections, such as the Wuhan Institute, took place. of Virology, which studies different types of coronavirus.

With information from EFE

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