The United States is the most eminent critic of WHO and has declared that it is leaving the United Nations agency. (File)
Washington:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that he expects a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus in China will be “completely whitewashed”.
Nearly 580,000 people worldwide died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and more than 13 million were infected following an epidemic that started in Wuhan, China, last year. .
WHO, based in Geneva, said it was sending a team to China in early July to investigate the start of the epidemic.
“This is a regime that has not released the information it had about a virus that killed more than 100,000 Americans … and now it allows the World Health Organization to conduct what I’m sure it will be a completely, completely whitewashed investigation, “Pompeo told reporters.
The United States is the most eminent critic of WHO and has declared that it is leaving the United Nations agency.
President Donald Trump, who has been severely criticized for his response to the epidemic in the United States, which has the highest number of deaths in the world with more than 136,000 people, has sought to blame China.
“I hope I am wrong. I hope this is a thorough investigation which goes to the bottom, but I have observed the behavior of the Chinese Communist Party towards the virus which emanated from Wuhan and they have just refused, “said Pompeo.
“They destroyed samples. They took journalists and doctors who were ready to talk about it and did not allow them to do what nations who want to play on a truly global scale and scene should do: be transparent and open, and communicate and cooperate, “he said.
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