Covid investigation: US Secretary of State criticises China

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has criticised China for its lack of transparency in uncovering how coronavirus emerged.

A team of investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) spent four weeks in China on a fact-finding mission at the beginning of the year. However, two experts from the WHO team said afterwards that China refused to grant full access to the data they sought.

In his first international interview, the Secretary of State said; ”a better health security system is needed to spot pandemics before they fully emerged.”

“It requires countries to be transparent. It requires them to share information. It requires them to give access to international experts at the beginning of an outbreak – things that unfortunately we haven’t seen from China,” he said.

Blinken also stressed the importance of worldwide vaccination against Covid-19.

BBC/Mercy Chukwudiebere