The Coronavirus pandemic, keeps the world in breath: more than five million people are already infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 – 182.313 of them so far in Germany.
China has apparently kept important information at the beginning of the developing Corona-pandemic aware of more than a week. The documents reviewed by the AP news Agency. Accordingly, the Chinese authorities already knew Details of how the genetic Code of the Virus. This enabled the researchers with testing for drugs and vaccines, start. The disclosure of the information was strictly controlled, to the in-house laboratories with data supply. The world health organization had praised in contrast, China, to the public for the immediate publication of the genetic code. Internally, there would have been concerns that the Asian superpower parts of enough data. 
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“We are now at the point where we have 15 minutes before CCTV reported, needs to know”, grumbled the chief WHO representative in China, Gauden Galea, according to the “world” in an internal Meeting that was recorded. CCTV, the state television broadcaster of China. Actually, international law obliges members of the WTO, information and data immediately to pass. Spicy: medium, this right to enforce, not the WHO.
Sars-Cov-2 was on 2. January decoded, at 30. January the WHO called the global state of emergency. In the meantime, could spread the Virus without hindrance. This revelation is the Wind on the mills Donald trump. The US President accuses of the Organisation of serious dereliction of duty, and before the division of China. He announced, as a consequence, the financing of the WHO by the United States.
The chronology: As a two state laboratories in China, the Virus at the 5. January is also decrypted, warned the responsible physician Professor Zhang Yongzhen, the health Commission, that Sars-Cov-2 “is likely to be contagious”. An official warning is not out went in China. In Thailand emerged at this time Corona-the Infected from the Outbreak, Wuhan, but the Thai doctors and researchers of the genetic Code was missing.
Internally, the mood at the WHO was tense. Michael Ryan, WHO is responsible for emergencies said that we should switch to “the Gang” and China, are pushing to share not only the Minimum of information. 11. January finally released Professor Zhang in Shanghai the genetic Code of the Virus, and before the Chinese authorities. Only a day later, the official Authorities such as the Chinese center for disease control and prevention, the Virology Institute in Wuhan and the Chinese Academy of medical Sciences followed.
The warning that it could spread the Virus among the people, made by the authorities on 20. January open to the public. First then, WHO sent a small Team to Wuhan to go to the new disease on the track. At the end of this trip, the emergency alert message to the WHO went out. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held back with criticism of the authorities is strong: “China has already made Incredible, to the Transmission of the Virus to other countries to restrict.”
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