How Australia IGNORED the World Health Organisation and stayed one step ahead on COVID-19 – after the WHO argued against closing the border, refused to call the virus a ‘pandemic’ and praised China
World Health Organisation rakes in $8.4M in fees plus tens of millions more a year from Australian taxpayers
But it stalled on declaring a pandemic, told countries to keep their borders open and heaped praise on China
Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Dave Sharma have slammed the ‘political’ organisation for its shortcomings
The Australian government has largely ignored the WHO and forged its own path toward stopping the virus
TAIPEI — While most Taiwanese were focused on the presidential election at the start of the year, many doctors and epidemiologists were picking up on an unusual surge of pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan — the epicenter of the novel coronavirus.
“Right at the start of 2020, all front-line doctors at medical centers received an official alert, following a warning by the Centers of Disease Control asking us to be attentive if we encountered patients with symptoms of cough, fever, sore throat and runny nose,” Lin, a pulmonologist at a national medical center in Taipei, told the Nikkei Asian Review. “We had to ask those patients their travel history, occupation and contact history.”
Internal documents obtained by NTD suggest the Chinese regime knew about the outbreak long before they made the information public. Chinese authorities lifted the lockdown on Wuhan today. But experts and locals worry that many cases are asymptomatic and not reported, which could trigger another #outbreak.
The Chinese Communist Party first accused the U.S., then Italy for the origin of the #CCPvirus. So who is to blame? Patient zero in nineteen countries reveals. At a press briefing on Monday, President Trump questioned a reporter if she works for China.
What’s this media’s link to Beijing? Ireland joins a list of European countries to receive faulty medical gear from China, saying 20% was unuseable, costing the country millions. NTD refers to the novel #coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) released an unconscionable report on Monday. Warning to readers, the content is tough to fathom. RFA’s report claims screams have been heard coming from funeral home furnaces, and that some hospital patients allegedly saw workers put coronavirus patients who were still alive in body bags.
The World Health Organisation has refused to release the names of doctors who blocked an early bid to declare coronavirus a global health emergency. A Sky News Australia investigation has revealed a group of WHO doctors debated whether to declare the deadly coronavirus global emergency in late January but those who wanted to implement strict travel restrictions were outvoted and instead, the body released a glowing statement praising China, followed by a recommendation for countries not to ban travel to China.
“The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available,” the WHO wrote on January 30 at a time when confirmed cases had already reached 12,167 in China and the virus had killed 170 people. Two days prior to that meeting in Geneva, WHO general manager Tedros Adhanom was photographed happily shaking hands with China’s leader Xi Jinping.
China has demanded an explanation from Brazil after the far-right government’s education minister linked the coronavirus pandemic to Beijing’s “plan for world domination”, in a tweet imitating a Chinese accent.
In the latest incident to strain ties between the two nations, minister Abraham Weintraub insinuated China was behind the global health crisis.
“Geopolitically, who will come out stronger from this global crisis?” he wrote on Twitter Saturday. “Who in Brazil is allied with this infallible plan for world domination?”
In the original Portuguese, his tweet substituted the letter “r” with capital “L” – “BLazil” instead of “Brazil,” for example – in a style commonly used to mock a Chinese accent.
Chinese state media is flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political adverts whitewashing its role in the coronavirus pandemic and pinning blame on Donald Trump.
Three official news outlets – Xinhua, China Central Television and the Global Times – have targeted users across the world with promoted stories in English, Chinese and Arabic.
A former U.S. ambassador to Japan has criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its coverup of the CCP virus in the early stages of the deadly outbreak, calling the regime’s mishandling of the virus “the crime of the century.”
Bill Hagerty, who is now a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, told “The Jeff Poor Show” on Friday that he believes the Chinese regime’s efforts to suppress information and conceal the virus before it became a pandemic makes it “the greatest cover-up in human history.”
“I’ve worked with China and seen how they operate for years. And I can tell you, what they’re trying to do right now with this Wuhan virus is the crime of the century in my view,” Hagerty told the radio host, Jeff Poor.
The Trump administration is considering legal action against China’s communist government over allegations it prevented medical safety gear manufacturers from exporting critical medical supplies in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
