Maris Payne
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April 17, the government of Wuhan said the number of infected and died during the epidemic. It turned out that the number of victims of coronavirus in the city is actually higher by 1 290 people and is 3 869. The number of infection cases increased by 325 – 50 333. In China, these revised data explained by underestimation of the
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China was not sufficiently Frank and hides some of the information on the origins and spread of coronavirus, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Australia, Maris Payne.
In an interview with ABC she stated that the issues related to mers are the reason for an independent investigation, reports TASS.
In the night of Sunday, the US President Donald trump at a press briefing at the White house said that China should be held accountable if it turns out that he had deliberately concealed information about the coronavirus COVID-19.
While trump said that if China just made a mistake, then it’s not so bad.
In recent days, trump regularly says that China and the who could hide important information about the coronavirus, has spread worldwide from the Chinese city of Wuhan.
April 17, the government of Wuhan said the number of infected and died during the epidemic. It turned out that the number of victims of coronavirus in the city is actually higher by 1 290 people and is 3 869. The number of infection cases increased by 325 – 50 333. In China, these revised data explained by underestimation.
Humanity does not yet have the necessary knowledge for the artificial creation of the virus, which by its characteristics would be similar to the new type of coronavirus. About it in interview to the Central television of China said Saturday the head of the Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the head of the Wuhan Institute of Virology yuan Jimin.
“U.S. Senator Tom cotton has long been said that the virus came from Wuhan Institute of Virology. After that, the Washington Post and two other journalists wrote that the virus came from Wuhan lab. He has no evidence, no logical connection, it relies entirely on your own guesswork” – gave an example of a specialist.
“It pursues its own goals: to distract attention and interfere with our measures to combat the epidemic, as well as scientific and technical works. I believe that to some extent they achieved their goals,” said yuan Jimin.
“There are a large number of publications in scientific journals. Based on my understanding of Virology, if we talk about the artificial synthesis of such a virus, but now there is no evidence indicating that the virus was artificially synthesized” – he said in a published interview.
Yuan Jimin said that he is confident that his lab could not occur any incidents that would have allowed the infectious agent to escape. However, in his opinion, such rumors will long remain in the information field.
Part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the only one in China laboratory certified according to the standard BSL-4 is the highest level of biological security. This allows the laboratory staff to investigate the pathogens of the most dangerous diseases in the world.