After more than a year of the first cases of COVID-19 discovered in China, independent expertise claims that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Beijing could have worked faster and stronger to alert against a global pandemic.
A panel of experts was mobilized in China to investigate the origins of this virus. Their first investigation report points to a kind of laxity on the part of China and WHO.
“It would have been possible to act faster on the basis of the first signs” and that measures of containment should have been immediately implemented in all countries confronted with a probable case, affirm these experts. And, they add, “it is clear that public health measures could have been applied more vigorously by local and national Chinese authorities,” reports AFP.
“We do not clearly see why he did not meet before the third week of January, nor why he could immediately agree on the declaration of an emergency of public health of international scope,” they write to criticize the slowness of WHO to bring together its emergency committee.
