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Considering China's actions over COVID-19 is for later, UK minister says

Published 05/02/2020, 12:41 PM
Updated 05/02/2020, 12:45 PM
© Reuters. Daily COVID-19 News Conference in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Considering China's actions regarding the novel coronavirus crisis is something that the United Kingdom will look at later but the focus right now is dealing with the immediate impact of the outbreak, a British minister said on Saturday.

Asked by a reporter about the possibility of investigating China and even claiming reparations from the People's Republic, housing minister Robert Jenrick said: "There will come a time when we will want to analyse the origins of the virus in detail and consider the actions of other countries but that's not now."

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China's Communist Goverment did must be clear with virus, did must closed its borders, stoped its people flying all over the world, and let the world know the impact of it. They never did it.
This COVID is pretty much an excuse for wall street to get free money from FED. No evidence showed the overall death rate in the nation incremented since the beginning of the year compare to the flu season started last October.  Simply it is just another variation of another flu like it always happens every year. What a joke!!!
The virus already spreaded to the west long before China locked down.
Trump failed big time...even CDC said so on Yahoo front page. US didn't know how to handle the virus from the beginning and we were not prepared. Dr Anne Schuchat, CDC No 2 official said it.
Why China and W.H.O released report remesidivr dont work? Looks like China has WHO in their pocket
Because China wants to pretend to be heroes by finding a treatment when they're the villains who covered this up and allowed millions to be infected. I guess the # of deaths is a drop in the bucket compared to how many millions of their own citizens they killed last century - estimates of 100MM killed by Chinese govt.
"Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20," adding "The World Health Organisation does the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4."
"Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23," reads the dossier. "Thousands fly overseas. Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home."
China locked down city on Jan 22 after they learned of how Evil the virus was. All nations should have taken action when China went into lockdown and the WHO declared the pandemic. That's the facts.
 Did you miss this part, where China advised against restricting travel: "Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home."
China Trolls trying to do damage control again. In case you missed it the dossier from 17 intelligence agencies leaked. "The paper obtained by The Saturday Telegraph speaks about “the suppression and destruction of evidence” and points to “virus samples ordered destroyed at genomics labs, wildlife market stalls bleached, the genome sequence not shared publicly, the Shanghai lab closure for ‘rectification’, academic articles subjected to prior review by the Ministry of Science and Technology and data on asymptomatic ‘silent carriers’ kept secret”.
Yes, that is correct. At this time everyone needs to work together at fighting the virus. When the time comes, we need to look at all countries and find their mistakes and fixed them. That is the way to go. We might find big time UK messed up or the US messed up big in dealing with the situation. China maybe made some mistakes also. The best is to find the mistakes and fix and stop blaming. Cause the next pandemic will strike again sometimes in the future.
we might find the us and UK messed up big time and maybe China did a tiny small accidental mistake too?who's side are you on?
I do not pick sides, but do you think the UK and the US can walk away free with anyone looking at their mistakes? If the world wants to fix mistakes, then the world needs to look at all nations on how they handle the crises.
it is not about how nations handle the virus, there is no perfect solution to handle such virus. It is more about how to prevent the next one, we need to find out the origin and fix it before the next gen kills more people
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