WHO = World Health Organization Secretary-General Tedros expressed disappointment after revealing that experts from an international research team planning to visit China to investigate the source of the new coronavirus were not allowed to enter the country. did.
WHO has been coordinating this week to send a team of international experts to China to investigate the source of the new coronavirus and what happened early in the spread.
However, at a regular press conference on the 5th, Secretary-General Tedros revealed that although two experts from the investigation team went to China, Chinese authorities had not completed the necessary procedures to enter the country and could not enter the country. ..
"I was very disappointed. The two were already heading to China and the other experts couldn't travel at the last minute," said Tedros, so that the team could enter the country quickly and begin the investigation. It was revealed that he strongly requested the side.
According to Ryan, who oversees crisis response, one of the experts is back and the other is waiting in a third country.
In an interview with NHK last month, WHO expert Ben Enbarek, who leads the research team, thinks the new virus logically originated in China because it closely resembles the virus found in Yunnan in 2013. Shows the idea that is reasonable.
Elucidation of the source has become an international concern, but confusion has arisen since the start of the research team's entry into the country.