{"id":10132,"date":"2020-05-11T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:27:44","slug":"who-denies-report-of-pressure-to-withhold-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/who-denies-report-of-pressure-to-withhold-info\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO denies report of pressure to withhold info"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The World Health Organization has dismissed as \u201cfalse allegations\u201d a media report that it withheld information about the new coronavirus following pressure from China.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. agency said in a statement late Saturday that a German magazine\u2019s report about a telephone conversation between WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Jan. 21 was \u201cunfounded and untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weekly Der Spiegel reported that Xi asked Tedros during the call to hold back information about human-to-human transmission of the virus and delay declaring a pandemic. The magazine quoted Germany\u2019s foreign intelligence agency, BND, which declined to comment Sunday.\u00a0 Der Spiegel also claimed that the BND concluded up to six weeks of time to fight the outbreak had been lost due to China\u2019s information policy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. agency said Tedros and Xi \u201chave never spoken by phone\u201d and added that \u201csuch inaccurate reports distract and detract from WHO\u2019s and the world\u2019s efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d\u00a0 It said that China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>WHO officials issued a statement two days later saying there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, but more investigation was necessary. The global body declared COVID-19 a pandemic on Feb. 11.U.S. President Donald Trump has been among the strongest critics of WHO\u2019s handling of the pandemic, accusing it of deference to China and ceasing payments to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/05\/10\/who-denies-report-of-pressure-to-withhold-info\">Euro News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has dismissed as \u201cfalse allegations\u201d a media report that it withheld information about the new coronavirus following pressure from China. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[179,2276,612],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vauen","category-vaufien","tag-china","tag-new-coronavirus","tag-who","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-35-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coronavirus5.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10134,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}