“WHO had not been able to investigate logs from the two laboratories working with viruses in Wuhan”
Speculation is still swirling around how and when the coronavirus began to spread in Wuhan and China is currently investigating the issue. But a representative for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sky News Thursday that China has refused its requests to participate in that investigation.
“We know that some national investigation is happening but at this stage we have not been invited to join,” Dr Gauden Galea said.
“WHO is making requests of the health commission and of the authorities,” he said. “The origins of virus are very important, the animal-human interface is extremely important and needs to be studied…
Asked by Sky News whether there was a good reason not to include the WHO, Dr Galea replied: “From our point of view, no.”
I guess the question is why, from China’s point of view, they don’t want anyone looking over their shoulder as they investigate this. China has reacted strongly to suggestions that the virus might have escaped from a laboratory. U. S. intelligence agencies say they are still investigating that possibility but have ruled out that the virus itself was man-made.
Yesterday, President Trump was asked if he’d seen any evidence that the virus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and he said that he had but when pressed he replied, “I can’t tell you that.
