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the Chinese Communist Party has concealed the outbreak of covert 19 since the mysterious virus began spreading among its people in late 2019 aided by the World Health Organization's negligence and willingness to believe China's word the Communist Party allowed the virus to grow into a pandemic killing more than 200,000 people and infecting millions more many in Australia the United States the United Kingdom and elsewhere are still confined to their homes or out of work entire countries are facing a tough decision reopen and let the virus possibly run rampant or bunk it down until a vaccine can be developed and face economic ruin curve at 19 began in the Chinese city of whoo-hah where 11 million people lived but precisely where or how it first got a foothold in the population Kovach 19 is believed to have jumped from an animal into a human at a seafood market in Wuhan places like these called wet markets a common in China selling seafood meat fruit and vegetables but some also brutally slaughter animals live on site some like the Wuhan fish market sell exotic wild animals that would never meet under normal circumstances creating a breeding ground for cross species disease scientists say it's highly likely the virus came from bats but first passed through a second animal just like the 2002 SARS outbreak in January the director of China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said the origins of the new corona virus is the wildlife sold illegally in a Wuhan seafood market and a w-h-o spokesman told the Geneva news briefing all available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or elsewhere but the identity of the species that served as a bridge between bats and people is still uncertain and despite being the most commonly held theory there has been no definitive proof wet markets for where the virus made the jump to people even research broadcast by a Chinese state-run media CG Tian said it may not have come from a Wuhan market a recent study by American scientists is shedding some light on the origin of the corona virus the researchers say they do not believe the virus originated in their lab as some theories suggest they also say the virus may not have come from a fish market in behind where the first infections were reported and research published in The Lancet medical journal so it's seeds of doubt about the wet market theory according to the data which offers details about the first forty-one hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections of kovat 19 just 27 had a history of direct exposure to the Wuhan wet market the gaping hole linking these early cases to the seafood market months after the outbreak began has some countries searching for an alternative origin of the virus Britain and the United States are investigating the origin of the virus far being the theory it could be linked to the Wuhan Institute of biology if it was a mistake a mistake is a mistake but if there were knowingly responsible yeah then there should be consequences yeah scientists research deadly diseases in bats the US Secretary of State says America wants the Chinese government to open up and explain how this virus spread this is a laboratory that contained highly contagious materials we knew that we knew that they were working on this program many many countries have programs like this we know that this virus originated in Wuhan China we know that there is the Wuhan Institute of ayala biology just a handful of miles away from where the wet market was there's still lots to learn you should know that the United States government is working diligently to figure this out but what we really need to Martha we really need the Chinese government to open up they say they want to cooperate one of the best ways they could find to cooperate would be there to let the world in to let the world's scientists know exactly how this came to be exactly how this virus began to spread the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs used the WH er to defend itself from the erupting theory that the virus could have been created artificially a spokesman said I'd like to remind you that the WH er has repeatedly stated that there is no evidence showing the virus was made in a lab evidence does indicate it would have been impossible to create the virus in a lab with current science immunologist Nigel Macmillan explained all evidence so far points to the fact the covert 19 virus is naturally derived and not man-made if you were going to design it in a lab the sequence changes make no sense as all previous evidence would tell you he would make the virus worse no system exists in the lab to make the changes found he said so there's a strong argument against the theory the virus was created in a lab but that doesn't rule out the chance a worker could have been infected in a sloppy error this theory gained traction when it was revealed that in 2018 US embassy officials in China sent warnings back to Washington about the Wuhan Institute of Eire ology in diplomatic cables reported in the Washington Post US officials who visited the facility expressed concern about safety at the lab there was a serious shortage they said of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate his high containment lab one cable warned that the research into bat coronaviruses and their potential for human transmission could cause a new SARS like outbreak when asked about the cables the u.s. defense secretary said America's investigation has so far been inconclusive this is something we've been watching closely now for some time the results are inconclusive if you will we do know one thing if the Chinese government the party had been more transparent earlier it would have helped us in terms of staying ahead of this virus being able to understand its DNA develop therapeutics and vaccines much quicker and to this day I don't know they need to be far more forthright than what they've been but scientists have hate doubt on this theory too saying it would take decades for covert 19 to form in the Wuhan lab evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes explained the closest relative to covert 19 is at bat virus named RA TG 13 which was kept at the Wuhan Institute of AI Rolla G there is some unfounded speculation that this virus was the origin of covert 19 the level of genome sequence divergence between curve at 19 and our ATG 13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years or at least 20 years of evolutionary change the Wuhan Institute of AI Rolla ji has also repeatedly denied accusations that it's the source of the pandemic as people who carry out viral studies we clearly know what kind of research is going on at the Institute and how the Institute's manages viruses and sentence as we said early on there's no way this virus came from us we have a strict regulatory regimen we have a code of conduct for research so we are confident of that why are there rumors because it begins the suit of virology and p4 laboratory heart in new Han people can't help but make associations which i think is understandable and china pointed to the wh ER as proof covert 19 never came from the lab this time using the body's opinion Bochum me what I never do da da de Mayo Chengdu go missing one thing going to change the Chinese track record of the Satan since the beginning of the outbreak and the wh our willingness to blindly accept the Chinese Communist Party's word undermines the legitimacy of the labs defense stepping back to the early days of the outbreak it was clear that WHR was legitimizing china's lies right from the beginning if the Chinese Communist Party had taken early steps to warn the world instead of covering up its spread and if the WHR had questioned China's information the harm from curve at 19 would have been minimal instead China's actions and the whu-oh is in action helped the pandemic establish itself leading to a global economic crisis and a soaring body count the first case of covered 19 goes as far back as November 17 according to media reports on unpublished Chinese government data there are actually cases being more than a report in the South China Morning Post said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance before from the 20th of January I mean there was a cover-up of course from their information so like in 2019 I mean they were already like over 400 cases whether it was November or December when China first became aware that the deadly threat it stumbled upon it wasn't until the last day of 2019 that China alerted the whe this breached the 2005 international health regulations which China is a signatory the regulation says members must notify the WHI within 24 assessment of any event which constitutes a public health emergency international concern in December China knew about human to human transmission and silenced the whistleblower doctors and ordered evidence to be destroyed information that would have been vital to prevent a pandemic despite the spreading outbreak it took more than two months for China to inform the world that coronavirus was being transmitted between humans something the Communist Party didn't admit until the 20th of January the w-h-o was also aware of human to human transmission at an early date Taiwan warned the organization on the 31st of December two weeks later on the 14th of January the w-h-o was still reporting preliminary investigations conducted by Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission by then the Communist Party had suppressed key knowledge of the threat curve at 19 post knowledge that was necessary to stop the deadly pandemic the world lives through today [Music] more people were falling sick the clear sign the virus was spreading between people including spreading from patients to doctors one of these was a whistleblower doctor the first to try and raise the alarm about covert 19 on the 30th of December after he noticed several cases of the virus but police stopped him from making false comments he said he started to feel sick in early January was later diagnosed with Cove at 19 and died in early February when news about dr. Leland LAN who was one of the you know very famous now on whistleblowers / hospital dr. first tried to speak out and they were silenced you see on the Chinese internet a lot of calls for freedom of speech and people were angry and you know their pleas were translated because they were censored so they were then translated to languages like Arabic English you know Star Wars language and the people were trying to bypass the censorship in various ways but the censorship came back it's a constant battle yes the the authority continues to censor you know whoever wants to talk about this there are a couple of citizen journalists who have disappeared for recording our Walheim it took until the 22nd of January for the World Health Organization to release a statement on the body's mission to China saying data collected through detailed investigation and through the deployment of new test kits suggests that human to human transmission is taking place but days later the WH er praised China for its transparency I thank the government of China for its cooperation and transparency the government has been successful in isolating and sequencing the virus very quickly and has shared that genetic sequence with the WH er and the international community China's tally of infections and deaths were also severely under counted on the 17th of April the death toll in Wuhan was officially revised upwards by 50% adding almost 1300 deaths to the 2600 it had at the time the WH o--'s refusal to question China's information and actions likely delayed the declaration of a global pandemic until the 11th of March Anna Skye news investigation earlier revealed the w-h-o blocked the names of its doctors who voted against declaring a public health emergency of international concern in late January only to be declared a week later based on the I H R 2005 what is expected from WH is declaring the public health emergency of international concern as early as possible based on the factors and as Mike said the highest the highest emergency as far as international health regulation is concerned was declared on January 30th and during that time as Maria said there were only there were less than 100 cases and to be specific 82 confirmed cases On January 30 outside China of course in China we had more cases but it was already too late for other countries to properly protect themselves the virus had already left the mainland according to a study from the United Kingdom's University of Southampton if Beijing had acted 3 weeks earlier the number of Kovach 19 cases would have been reduced by 95 percent and its spread would have been heavily limited China also engaged in a predatory campaign to make Australia remove its travel bans with the country in a Sky News interview the Chinese ambassador called for harsh travel restrictions to be removed or relaxed the Ambassador used advice from the whu-oh to try and crack open the borders in early February showing just how the Chinese Communist Party property of the whro to achieve its goals we are deeply disappointed over the I mean the restrictive Maris has been taken because as I see it they are out of proportion inconsistent with the professional I mean recommendations of double-edge own they disapprove of any measures that would unnecessarily interfere with international trade there was very considerable criticism when we imposed on the first of February the China ban from some of the officials in the w-h-o in Geneva we've done well because we made our own decisions as a country some countries have begun to question China's influence over the whu-oh and the sequence of events that allowed the viral outbreak last year to grow into a pandemic the President of the United States has withheld funding from the whu-oh while America investigates the China centric bodies initial response to the corona virus leaving a gaping hole in its funding I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization's role and severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the corona [Music] but he knows what's going on there American taxpayers provide between 400 million and 500 million dollars per year to the w-h-o in contrast China contributes roughly 40 million dollars a year and even less as the organization's leading sponsor the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability the director-general of the WHL cityhood Trump would change his mind we regret the decision of the President of the United States to order a hole in funding to the World Health Organization we support from the people and government of the United States tablature works to improve the count of many of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people he also said the body's performance in handling 5:19 would be reviewed as part of a usual process no doubt areas for improvement will be identified and there will be lessons for all of us to learn but for now our focus my focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives Trump said the WHR had pirated Chinese word about how the virus is spread failed to obtain virus samples from China and made a disasterous choice to fight against travel restrictions as the outbreak and spread one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHL was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from China and other nations they were very much opposed to what we did fortunately I was not convinced and suspended travel from China saving untold numbers of lives thousands and thousands of people would have died had other nations like Y suspended travel from China countless more lives would have been saved instead look at the rest of the world look at parts of Europe other nations and regions who follow w-h-o guidelines and kept their borders open to China accelerated the pandemic all around the world many countries said we're gonna listen to the w-h-o and they have problems the likes of which they cannot believe Trump's retaliation has received glowing praise from critics of China and the WHL but country's health legs bones and even billionaire Bill Gates have expressed alarm at the decision warning it could jeopardize efforts to fight the corona virus pandemic halting funding for the whu-oh during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds their work is slowing the spread of covin 19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them the world needs the whu-oh now more than ever australia's treasurer says the country will continue to financially support the w-h-o justifying its work fighting measles and malaria in the Pacific region in terms of Australia we see the World Health Organization funding particularly in our region and that's important to Australian as you know we have funded the World Health agreed with them on everything some Australian politicians now believe there should be a review of Australia's funding of the WH er where a significant donor to the WH o as well in terms of assessed contributions and also voluntary contributions I expect the world be will be having more to say on this once the worst of these processes behind we should make sure that we condition our future funding upon necessary reforms now we'll need to settle on those reforms with a group of other countries and like-minded countries as well and the Australian Government has been ferociously critical of China's decision to reopen the disease wet markets I think that's unfathomable frankly I mean we need to protect the world against potential sources of outbreaks of these types of viruses and look it's happened too many times on I'm totally puzzled by this decision when we don't have them here in Australia and I'm just puzzled it's unbelievable it's extraordinary that the World Health Organization sees it fit for these wet markets to continue in China they shouldn't I mean they've been the source of outbreaks that have killed people around the world I would have thought from the World Health Organization's perspective protecting the health of the world is its first priority the w-h-o said it didn't support closing the markets because they were a source of livelihood and food security to many people but even if covert 19 didn't cross over from animals to humans in a Wuhan wet market the unsanitary conditions pose a threat to public health around the world Australia also wants a global inquiry into the origin of the virus and the way China handled the initial outbreak we need to know the sorts of details that an independent review would identify for us about the genesis of the virus about the approach approaches to dealing with it and addressing with eat about the openness with which information was shared about interaction with the World Health Organization into action with other international leaders all of those sorts of things will need to be on the table China rejected Australia's call for the probe as soon as it emerged with the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman pushing back against the proposal yeah China's performance and our contribution has been widely praised by the international community any doubts on China's transparency and prevention and control of the epidemic is not in line with the facts well if you are we hope certain people in Australia will do more to improve china-australia relations deepen a mutual trust between the two countries and help anti pandemic cooperation rather than going along with the hyper created by a certain country Australia's Prime Minister responded this is important regardless of where a virus might break out if it happened in Australia if it happened in China and have happened in parts of Africa or the Pacific or the Middle East or wherever it happened to be it's important for public health globally that there is a transparency in the way that you can get access to this important information early so it's it's not pursued as at an issue of criticism it's a pursued as an as an issue of importance for public health and I think it's important that all countries cooperate with that regardless of who they are China's ambassador to Australia has since ignited a feud between the two countries warning an independent investigation into covert nineteen's origins could spark a Chinese consumer boycott of Australia's education tourism and agriculture his comments were swiftly condemned by the Australian Government which called them ludicrous and equated them to economic coercion in no way is the Australian government going to change our policy positions on matters of public health in response to any suggestion of economic coercion from the representative of another nation hundreds of thousands of people have died hundreds of millions have probably lost their jobs billions of people have suffered disruption to their lives and it's not asking much that there be a transparent investigation to ensure that the world learns from this and that we are better placed to prevent - impacts of such pandemics in future the Chinese ambassador also leaked a conversation with Australia's Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade in which he flatly rejected the need for an investigation and urged Australia to put aside ideological bias and stop playing political games Philip Ritchie Sky News