China stalling WHO Covid-19 probe Elvidio Miranda When the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origin of coronavirus stated that it was `extremely unlikely' that the Wuhan virology institute was the source of origin of the virus that led to the deadly pandemic as it was well secured, China thought that they had got away with owning responsibility for being to be blamed for the initiation of the outbreak. The WHO team however had also suggested that the virus was an animal to human transmission. But later the Chinese authorities `refused' to give the WHO `raw data' meaning details of the first 174 cases that originated in the wet markets of Wuhan, in the end of the third week of December, 2019 to the beginning of the fourth week of December, 2019, at which the outbreak was first reported in China. Because the WHO was seemingly favouring China, former US president Donald Trump suspended funding to the WHO. Now, the WHO itself has been not getting sufficient cooperation from the Chinese authorities which definitely suggests that China has something to hide.As far as the rest of the world is concerned, the confirmed infections and the fatality rates worldwide make for very grim reading. Johns Hopkins University data reveal that there are 108 million confirmed cases of infections and 2.39 million deaths due to Covid-19 across the globe. The countries worst affected are: United States (27.6 million infections and 4,84,400 deaths), Brazil (9.77 million infected and 2,37,000 deaths), India (10.9 million infected and 1,56,000 deaths), United Kingdom (4.01 million infected and 1,16,000 deaths), Italy (2.7 million cases of infection and 93,045 deaths), Russia (4 million infected and 77,911 deaths), Spain (3.06 million infected cases and 64,747 deaths). In light of this unprecedented tragedy in the world which has disrupted normal lives, caused untold misery and suffering to the people across the world and severely affected economy throughout the globe, it is the duty of the most affected countries to exert pressure both diplomatic and through economic sanctions on China to make it accept responsibility for the origin of the coronavirus, since they are stalling a fair and equitable probe into the virus origin by WHO which is recognized by China..
