After US President Donald Trump announced that he had seen evidence indicating that the new Corona virus came from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, the representative of the World Health Organization in China, Godin Gallia, revealed that the Chinese authorities consistently rejected requests by the World Health Organization to participate in the investigation of the emergence of a virus Corona Novel.
"We know that a (Chinese) national investigation has already been opened, but at this stage we have not been invited to participate," the organization's representative said in an interview with Britain's Sky News, Thursday evening.
The representative pointed out that the World Health Organization is very interested in knowing how and the circumstances of the emergence of the virus to prevent a new epidemic, stressing that the Chinese authorities did not allow the WHO to access the documents of the virus testers in Wuhan - Corona Virus Spread Center.
The World Health Organization said earlier that a team of international experts led by the organization had gone to Beijing to assist in investigations into the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
This coincides with the announcement of US President Donald Trump that he saw evidence proving that the new Corona virus came from an institute in Wuhan, saying that the spread of the pandemic is due to China's failure to stop it or its will to do so.
In response to a White House reporter who asked him if he had seen evidence to make him seriously believe that the Wuhan Virus Institute was the source of the Corona pandemic, Trump said, "Yes." “It was something that could have been contained in the place of origin. And I think it could have been contained very easily. ”
The US President did not specify what evidence he had seen in this context, but he indicated that he might impose punitive customs duties on China.
In response to another question about the possibility that the United States will not repay its debts to China, in a retaliatory measure, Trump said, "I can do this differently, by imposing customs taxes," as it did in the past during the trade dispute between his country and Beijing.
For his part, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that he does not know exactly where the epidemic began.
"We don't know if it came from the Wuhan Virus Institute," he said in an interview with a local radio. We don’t know if it came from the Wuhan market or even somewhere else. ”
"We do not have these answers," the foreign minister added. That is why President Trump has made it clear that we need to have it. ”