{"id":53132,"date":"2020-05-10T09:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53132"},"modified":"2020-05-10T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:11:16","slug":"china-asked-who-to-delay-pandemic-announcement-deny-human-to-human-transmission-german-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53132","title":{"rendered":"China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

German intelligence has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Thebreyesus to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in January<\/strong>, according to Der Spiegel<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During a January 21 conversation – one week after the WHO assured the world there was ‘no clear evidence<\/strong>  <\/a>of human-to-human transmission’ – Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to reveal that the virus was in fact transmissible between humans<\/strong>, and to delay declaring that the coronavirus had become a pandemic<\/strong> – despite the virus qualifying as one by the WHO’s own former guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the WHO announced on the 22nd that data collected through their own investigation “suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan,” which they said more analysis was required “to understand the full extent,” they waited all the way until March 11 to declare the virus a pandemic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Brahma Chellaney of Project Syndicate<\/a> wrote last month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is now widely recognized that China\u2019s political culture of secrecy helped to turn a local viral outbreak into the greatest global disaster of our time.<\/strong> Far from sounding the alarm when the new coronavirus was detected in Wuhan, the Communist Party of China (CPC) concealed the outbreak, allowing it to spread far and wide. Months later, China continues to sow doubt<\/a> about the pandemic\u2019s origins and withhold<\/a> potentially life-saving data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-January, the body\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0that investigations by Chinese authorities had found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus. Taiwan\u2019s December 31 warning that such transmission was likely happening in Wuhan was ignored by the WHO, even though the information had been enough to convince the Taiwanese authorities \u2013 which may have better intelligence on China than anyone else \u2013 to\u00a0institute<\/a>\u00a0preventive measures at home before any other country, including China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence German intelligence has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Thebreyesus to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in January, according to Der Spiegel. During a January 21 conversation – one week after the WHO assured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[28817,29664,359,855,878,10233,28842],"class_list":["post-53132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-coronavirus","tag-german-intelligence","tag-germany","tag-viral-pandemic","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization","tag-wuhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53133,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions\/53133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}