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Updated January 18, 2021
This picture taken on April 24, 2020 shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva next to their headquarters, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus.
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The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when Covid-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the global response has concluded.
In its second report, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said that an evaluation of the “chronology of the early phase of the outbreak suggests that there was potential for early signs to have been acted on more rapidly”.
The World Health Organization and Beijing could have acted faster when Covid-19 first surfaced in China, a group investigating the global response has concluded.
China and the World Health Organisation could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts said.
China and the World Health Organization (WHO) could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts has concluded.
WHO-backed Independent Panel for Pandemic Response says largely hidden epidemic contributed to the global spread
AFP
January 18, 2021
China could have acted more quickly in dealing with Covid-19, the WHO’s pandemic response probe declared on Monday.
The WHO-backed Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said the largely hidden epidemic contributed to the global spread in the earliest days of the pandemic, after the virus first surfaced in Wuhan in December 2019.
The panel, set up last July after countries including Australia angered China by calling for an investigation, said there was potential for early signs to have been acted on more rapidly by China and the WHO.