"중국, Covid-19전염병, 처음부터 모든걸 다 숨겼었다"고 WHO 드디어 폭로했다.
처음에 WuHan에서 Coronavirus Pandemic이 발생하여 외부에 알려지기 시작했을때, 일부 뉴스에서는
Wuhan에서 전염병 의심되는 주민이 공안당국에 발각되면 그길로 끌려가서, 그 뒷소식은 완전차단되여, 그사람의 소재파악이 안되고, 행방불명됐었다는 뉴스였었다. 물론 그사람들은 환자숫자에 포함안된것은 물론이었다.
트럼프 대통령이 중국에 대한 불만을 뿜어대는것은, 바로 중국이 매사에 진정성을 보이지 않고, 거짖말을 밥먹듯이 하기 때문이었다. 특히 Coronavirus Pandemic의 초기발생시, 있는 사실을 그대로 바로 인접국가및 WHO에 까지 자세한 자료를 넘겨주지않아, 결론적으로 전세계가 방역 Timing을 놓쳐, 지금 전세계적으로 4백만명의 확진자가 발생하는 전염병재앙이 현재도 퍼지고 있는 원인을 제공했기 때문이었다. 지금의 상태가 미국과 중국간에 계속 지속된다면 중국의 앞날에 많은 타격이 있을것으로 추측되는데...
지난 1월에까지만 해도, WHO에서는 새로 발생한 전염병에 대한 중국의 신속한 처리와 전염병에 대한 Gentic지도를 신속히 공유한점에 대해 감사를 표했었다.
그러나 중국정부산하 여러 시험실에서 새 전염병에 대한것, 즉 게놈, 유전자분석표등에 대한 모든것을 다 분석했었고, 이의 치료를 위한 실험, 백신, 약품들에 대한 자세한 정보를 서로 공유하지 않고 움켜쥐고있었던것을, 일주일후에야 중국정부가 발표한것이었다. 중국인들의 공중보건시스템에서 정보공유와 경쟁을 매우 엄격히 통제하는 중국의 솔직하지않은점이 맹렬히 비난의 대상이 된것이라는점을 AP 통신이 내부문서자료, 이메일 그리고 수십명이 넘는 사람들과의 인터뷰에서 확인한 것이다.
초기의 전염병에 대한 정보도 중국이 움켜쥐고 있다가, UN 보건기구가 곤경에 처해 있을 즈음에야 알려줬었다.
트럼프 대통령은 WHO와 금요일, WHO가 중국과 협잡하여 전염병의 상황을 숨겨온것이 확실히 들통난것을 맹멸히 비난후, 더이상 거래를 하지 않는다고 경고하고 모든 지원을 끊었다. 즉 WHO가 공정하게 전염병확산 및 치료에 공정을 기하지 못하고, 중국쪽에 많이 기울어진 행동을 취했다는것이다.WHO의 새로운 정보가 미국 또는 중국 어느쪽에도 그내용을 지원하지 못하고 있다. 그러면서도 WHO는 감독기관으로서의 긴급상황에
대한 데이타 수집 과정에서 제구실을 하지 못하고 중간에 끼어있어있는 형국이다. 비록 국제법상에서 모든 회원국들은 WHO에 모든
정보를 보고해야 할 의무가 있긴한데, WHO는 그러한 정보를 확보하기위한 법적인 권한이 주어져 있지를 않고있다. 대신에 회원국들의
협조에 의존하여 처리하고있는 실정이다. 중국은 이러한 맹점을 악용해 왔음에 미국을 비롯한 서방세계의 분노를 산것이다.
1월2일 처음 Coronavirus Pandemic 전염병으로 확인 되었을때, 중국의 국립질병 본부 데이타의 분석에 따르면 이미 100배에서 200배 이상 전염병이 퍼진 상태로, WHO는 뒤늦게 1월30일 지구촌에 비상사태를 선포했었다.
WHO사무총장, Tedros의 중국여행을 마치고 돌아온후, 비상회의를 소집하여, 1월 30일 마침내 지구촌의 전염병이 창궐하고
있음을 선포한 것이다. Tedros사무총장은 WHO가 전염병의 위험을 두려워 한다고 며칠전 발표했었던것을 뒤집으면서, 중국에
무한한 감사를 표했었다. "우리는 중국의 전염병 방역에 대한 노력에 감사화 경의를 표해야 한다. 중국은 다른 나라로 전염병이
퍼지는것을 막기위한 많은 노력을 해오고 있었다"라고 그는 설명을 했던 것이다. 완전히 중국을 응원하는 발언이었던 것이다. 전세계에
거짖말을 한 중국을 그는 한없이 칭찬했던 것이다.
참고로 미국은 WHO에 매년 약 4억달러를 지원해 왔는데, 중국은 겨우 4천만 달러다. 그런속에서 WHO가 중국의 손아귀에서 놀아났으니...트럼프가 WHO와 중국을 맹렬히 비난하면서, WHO와의 모든 관계를 끊는다고 선언한 것이다. 이해가 충분히 간다. 이럴때 한국은 정확하게 나아가야할 방향을 확실히 정하고 항해를 해야하는데...모든 국민들은 혈맹 미국과 한배를 타고 항해하기를 바라는데....
The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2020 2:57PM EDT
Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised
China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and
thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus
“immediately.”
But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus for over a week after multiple government labs had fully decoded it, not sharing details key to designing tests, drugs and vaccines. Strict controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were largely to blame, The Associated Press has found from internal documents, emails and dozens of interviews.
Health officials only released the genome after a Chinese lab published it ahead of authorities on a virology website on Jan 11. Even then, China stalled for at least two weeks more on giving WHO the details it needed, according to recordings of multiple internal meetings held by the U.N. health agency in January - all at a time when the outbreak arguably might have been dramatically slowed.
Although WHO continued to publicly commend China, the recordings obtained by the AP show they were concerned China was not sharing enough information to assess the risk posed by the new virus, costing the world valuable time.
“We're currently at the stage where yes, they're giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV,” said WHO's top official in China, Dr. Gauden Galea, referring to the state-owned China Central Television, in one meeting.
The story behind the early response to the pandemic comes at a time when the U.N. health agency is under siege. U.S. President Trump cut ties with WHO on Friday, after blasting the agency for allegedly colluding with China to hide the extent of the epidemic. Chinese President Xi Jinping said China has always provided information to WHO and the world “in a most timely fashion.”
But in fact, Chinese officials sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the deadly virus for over a week after multiple government labs had fully decoded it, not sharing details key to designing tests, drugs and vaccines. Strict controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were largely to blame, The Associated Press has found from internal documents, emails and dozens of interviews.
Health officials only released the genome after a Chinese lab published it ahead of authorities on a virology website on Jan 11. Even then, China stalled for at least two weeks more on giving WHO the details it needed, according to recordings of multiple internal meetings held by the U.N. health agency in January - all at a time when the outbreak arguably might have been dramatically slowed.
Although WHO continued to publicly commend China, the recordings obtained by the AP show they were concerned China was not sharing enough information to assess the risk posed by the new virus, costing the world valuable time.
“We're currently at the stage where yes, they're giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV,” said WHO's top official in China, Dr. Gauden Galea, referring to the state-owned China Central Television, in one meeting.
The story behind the early response to the pandemic comes at a time when the U.N. health agency is under siege. U.S. President Trump cut ties with WHO on Friday, after blasting the agency for allegedly colluding with China to hide the extent of the epidemic. Chinese President Xi Jinping said China has always provided information to WHO and the world “in a most timely fashion.”
The new information does not support the narrative of either the U.S.
or China, but portrays an agency now stuck in the middle that was
urgently trying to solicit more data. Although international law obliges
countries to report information to WHO that could have an impact on
public health, the U.N. agency has no enforcement powers. Instead, it
must rely on the co-operation of member states.
The AP has found rather than colluding with China, WHO was itself
largely kept in the dark, as China gave it only the minimal information
required. But the agency did attempt to portray China in the best light,
most likely to coax the country into providing more outbreak details.
WHO officials worried about how to press China for more information without angering authorities or jeopardizing Chinese scientists, whom they praised for decoding the genome with astonishing speed. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said the best way to “protect China” was for WHO to do its own independent analysis, because otherwise the spread of the virus between people would be in question and “other countries will take action accordingly.”
From the time the virus was first decoded on Jan. 2 to when WHO declared a global emergency on Jan. 30, the outbreak grew by a factor of 100 to 200 times, according to retrospective Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention data.
WHO officials worried about how to press China for more information without angering authorities or jeopardizing Chinese scientists, whom they praised for decoding the genome with astonishing speed. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said the best way to “protect China” was for WHO to do its own independent analysis, because otherwise the spread of the virus between people would be in question and “other countries will take action accordingly.”
From the time the virus was first decoded on Jan. 2 to when WHO declared a global emergency on Jan. 30, the outbreak grew by a factor of 100 to 200 times, according to retrospective Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention data.
WHO and officials named in this story declined to answer questions
asked by the AP without audio or written transcripts of the recorded
meetings, which the AP was unable to supply to protect its sources.
“Our leadership and staff have worked night and day….to support and share information with all Member States equally, and engage in frank and forthright conversations with governments at all levels,” a WHO statement said.
“Our leadership and staff have worked night and day….to support and share information with all Member States equally, and engage in frank and forthright conversations with governments at all levels,” a WHO statement said.
China's National Health Commission and Ministry of Foreign Affairs had
no comment. But in the past few months, China has repeatedly defended
its actions, and many other countries - including the U.S. - have
responded to the virus with even longer delays of weeks and even months.
In late December, doctors noticed mysterious clusters of patients with unusual pneumonia. Seeking answers, they sent samples to commercial labs. By Dec. 27, one company, Vision Medicals, had pieced together most of the genome of a new virus with striking similarities to SARS. They alerted Wuhan officials, who, days later, issued internal notices warning of the unusual pneumonia.
On Dec. 30, Shi Zhengli, a renowned coronavirus expert at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was alerted to the disease, and by Jan. 2, her team had fully decoded it.
But when it came to sharing the genome with the world, things went awry. China's top medical authority, the National Health Commission, issued a confidential notice forbidding labs from publishing about the virus without authorization. The order barred Shi's lab from publishing the sequence or warning of the possible danger.
Commission officials later said the order was to prevent any accidental release of the then-unknown pathogen, and to ensure consistent results by giving it to four state labs to identify at the same time.
By Jan. 5, two other government labs sequenced the virus, and another lab in Shanghai led by Zhang Yongzhen had also decoded it. Zhang warned the National Health Commission the virus was “likely infectious.” The Chinese CDC raised its emergency level to the second highest, but did not have the authority to alert the public.
Suspicious cases starting surfacing across the region. In Thailand, airport officials pulled aside a woman travelling from Wuhan with a runny nose, sore throat and high temperature. Scientists at Chulalongkorn University soon figured out she was infected with a new coronavirus, but did not have a sequence from China to match it.
WHO officials, meanwhile, grumbled in internal meetings that China was stalling on providing crucial outbreak details even though it was technically meeting its obligations under international law. Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said it was time to “shift gears” and push for more information.
“The danger now is that despite our good intent...there will be a lot of finger-pointing at WHO if something does happen,” he said.
On Jan. 11, Shanghai's Zhang finally published the coronavirus sequence ahead of health authorities on virological.org, used by researchers to swap tips on pathogens. It was only then that the Chinese CDC, Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences raced to publish their sequences, doing so on Jan. 12.
On Jan. 20, Chinese authorities warned the virus spread between people. WHO dispatched a small team to Wuhan from its Asia offices. China representative Galea told colleagues the Chinese were “talking openly and consistently about human-to-human transmission.”
WHO's emergency committee of independent experts met twice that week and decided against recommending an emergency. But the agency's concern prompted an unusual trip to Beijing by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and top scientists.
At the end of Tedros' trip, WHO convened another emergency meeting, finally declaring a global emergency on Jan. 30. Tedros thanked China profusely, declining to mention any of WHO's earlier frustrations.
“We should have actually expressed our respect and gratitude to China for what it's doing,” he said. “It has already done incredible things to limit the transmission of the virus to other countries.”
In late December, doctors noticed mysterious clusters of patients with unusual pneumonia. Seeking answers, they sent samples to commercial labs. By Dec. 27, one company, Vision Medicals, had pieced together most of the genome of a new virus with striking similarities to SARS. They alerted Wuhan officials, who, days later, issued internal notices warning of the unusual pneumonia.
On Dec. 30, Shi Zhengli, a renowned coronavirus expert at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was alerted to the disease, and by Jan. 2, her team had fully decoded it.
But when it came to sharing the genome with the world, things went awry. China's top medical authority, the National Health Commission, issued a confidential notice forbidding labs from publishing about the virus without authorization. The order barred Shi's lab from publishing the sequence or warning of the possible danger.
Commission officials later said the order was to prevent any accidental release of the then-unknown pathogen, and to ensure consistent results by giving it to four state labs to identify at the same time.
By Jan. 5, two other government labs sequenced the virus, and another lab in Shanghai led by Zhang Yongzhen had also decoded it. Zhang warned the National Health Commission the virus was “likely infectious.” The Chinese CDC raised its emergency level to the second highest, but did not have the authority to alert the public.
Suspicious cases starting surfacing across the region. In Thailand, airport officials pulled aside a woman travelling from Wuhan with a runny nose, sore throat and high temperature. Scientists at Chulalongkorn University soon figured out she was infected with a new coronavirus, but did not have a sequence from China to match it.
WHO officials, meanwhile, grumbled in internal meetings that China was stalling on providing crucial outbreak details even though it was technically meeting its obligations under international law. Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said it was time to “shift gears” and push for more information.
“The danger now is that despite our good intent...there will be a lot of finger-pointing at WHO if something does happen,” he said.
On Jan. 11, Shanghai's Zhang finally published the coronavirus sequence ahead of health authorities on virological.org, used by researchers to swap tips on pathogens. It was only then that the Chinese CDC, Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences raced to publish their sequences, doing so on Jan. 12.
On Jan. 20, Chinese authorities warned the virus spread between people. WHO dispatched a small team to Wuhan from its Asia offices. China representative Galea told colleagues the Chinese were “talking openly and consistently about human-to-human transmission.”
WHO's emergency committee of independent experts met twice that week and decided against recommending an emergency. But the agency's concern prompted an unusual trip to Beijing by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and top scientists.
At the end of Tedros' trip, WHO convened another emergency meeting, finally declaring a global emergency on Jan. 30. Tedros thanked China profusely, declining to mention any of WHO's earlier frustrations.
“We should have actually expressed our respect and gratitude to China for what it's doing,” he said. “It has already done incredible things to limit the transmission of the virus to other countries.”
https://www.cp24.com/world/who-officials-complained-china-withheld-key-documents-from-them-1.4965748
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