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Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said on Sunday that China has not provided “enough original data” on the origin and subsequent spread of the coronavirus, which has been contracted by more than 28 million Americans.
“ They are about to publish a report on the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, which we have questions about as we do not believe that China has made enough original data available on how this pandemic started to spread. both in China and afterwards. in everyone, ”said the official on CBS News’ Face the Nation program.
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On February 9, the World Health Organization (WHO) mission to investigate the coronavirus in Wuhan ruled out the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory, when it was possible that the virus might have come to China from China . other countries through the frozen refrigeration chain.
Given the controversy caused by the announcement of the mission, the WHO Director of Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan, replied on February 15 that the purpose of that visit was not to “explore China”, but to learn lessons for the future.
But Sullivan pointed out that “the only way to have a science-based study is to have access to all the data, and not just to know what happened during this pandemic, but to prevent future pandemics.”
“I am not in a position to say how Covid-19 came to this world,” added the White House official. All I can do is ask WHO to do their best. “
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In this context, he defended that WHO research should be “left to scientists and experts so that they can conduct it without any interference from any government,” as this is the only way we are going to know. what the origin of this is. “
He also referred to a two-hour conversation that the US leader held with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Feb. 10.
President Biden raised the issue of Covid-19 and the need for all countries to take responsibility to help protect the world, including China, “said Sullivan.
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The national security adviser has clarified this Washington He is unable to make a decision on where the pandemic originated, which he attributed in part to “insufficient transparency from the Chinese government.”
And when asked about the administration of now-former President Donald Trump, he said it was “not taking pandemic surveillance as seriously as it should be.
The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic, with more than 28 million infected and nearly 500,000 dead, according to the independent Earl of Johns Hopkins University.