Canberra’s call for the first inquiry sparked a fierce reaction from Beijing,which imposed billions of dollars’ worth of trade tariffs on Australian goods.
In a rare departure from his usual deference to powerful member countries,the WHO chief said he was asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.
Danielle Anderson’s career has taken her all over the world,including to the Chinese research lab now at the centre of attention due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The World Health Organisation has approved the Sinovac Biotech vaccine for emergency use,only the second Chinese vaccine to be given the green light to fight COVID-19.
India has been “the pharmacy to the developing world”. Now it is in need and the US and China are arguing about who should help.
He is the world’s doctor,and for months he has tirelessly led the global response to the coronavirus pandemic while privately nursing a piercing anguish.
A leaked draft version of the report,however,said that the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from animals to humans was the most likely scenario.
WHO announced its highest level of alert - a public health emergency of international concern - on January 30 but did not describe it as a “pandemic” until March 11.
The White House has called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak,saying it has “deep concerns” about the way the findings of the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 report were communicated.
One poor country received a mere 25 coronavirus vaccine doses while over 39 million doses have been administered in nearly 50 richer nations.
The comments from one of China's top scientists are the most detailed public statements yet from a Chinese official describing circumstances at the start of the crisis.