China is bracing itself for more negative press of its handling over the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Beijing's ties with the US may worsen further after President Joe Biden offered his administration 90 days to examine if the virus originated in a Wuhan, China facility.
In this article we are going to discuss the political ramifications of the Coronavirus pandemic.
It isn't a new hypothesis that the Coronavirus originated in a Chinese research facility in Wuhan, China. Former US President Donald Trump originally made the assertions, claiming that US intelligence had proof that numerous researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019.
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The United States' position has not altered as a result of a change of guard at the White House. Joe Biden, like his predecessor Donald Trump, is now asking the same question.
Was the current worldwide pandemic caused by an accident at the Wuhan Laboratory?
According to the US State Department, Chinese officials attempted to conceal critical information about the epidemic for months before making it public. The notion has not been ruled out by the scientific community, which has criticized the World Health Organization's equivocal findings concerning the virus's origin.
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As a result, China's ties with several nations, including Australia, are deteriorating.
After Prime Minister Scott Morrison, with US assistance, called for an investigation into the origins of the Coronavirus and banned Huawei's 5G participation in Australia, China began barring imports of Australian cattle, coal, and other items in 2020.
China has also legally halted contact at the ministerial level, resulting in a major reduction in Australian exports entering the country, harming dozens of vital Australian businesses such as wine, barley, and coal sales.
So why are many doubting the World Health Organization's conclusion that COVID-19 originated in bats and was transferred to humans by an unidentified intermediary species, maybe a pangolin?
Because 14 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and others, believe WHO's findings are inconclusive, they claim WHO investigators were given access to raw patient data and blood samples, but were unable to conduct a full audit of Wuhan labs where staff had been working on Coronavirus samples prior to the pandemic outbreak.
COVID-19 escaping from a laboratory, according to the WHO, is exceedingly rare. According to them, the virus was probably spreading in China between mid-November and late-November 2019.
After a scientific event in Beijing, China's capital, the Wuhan lab came to the notice of the United States in late 2017. SARS researchers in China discovered a'spike protein' that was particularly adept at latching onto human lung cells.
The new deadly viruses were discovered at a Wuhan facility that US officials were previously unaware of. When American scientists and diplomats visited the Wuhan facility, Chinese experts informed them that their lab lacked enough adequately educated staff to function securely.
The scientists were requesting extra assistance in order to bring the lab up to code.
Is there a chance of more diplomatic friction between nations who disagree with China's narrative and Beijing?
Not for the family of the almost 3.5 million individuals who perished as a result of COVID-19, and no one knows what the exact economic impact will be six months from now.
The actual cause of the new Coronavirus is unknown, but researchers are still looking for answers. The real course of the virus cannot be tracked and scientists cannot fully investigate the best approaches to avoid future outbreaks unless the infection's source is identified.
As a result, having unlimited access to data from the incident more than 18 months later is critical for the worldwide community.
[Disclaimer : This article is based on TRT World's Decoded]