Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, criticized the Trump administration, saying they “did not take pandemic surveillance as seriously as they should”, citing the forthcoming report by the World Health Organization on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic Sunday. doubted.
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“I also believe we need a credible, open, transparent international investigation led by the World Health Organization,” Sullivan told CBS ‘Face the Nation on Sunday. “They are about to release a report on the origins of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, which we have questions about, because we do not believe that China has provided sufficiently original data on how this pandemic began to spread in China. and finally around the world. ‘
“We believe that the WHO and China should step up this issue,” he continued.
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Despite the fact that members of the Biden administration express concern, the government nevertheless chose to enter into discussions with the WHO again. Foreign Minister Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that the US would pay $ 200 million to the WHO by the end of the month.
The symbol of the World Health Organization on the side of a building.
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“I’m not in a position, nor in the Biden government, to determine exactly where COVID-19 originated,” Sullivan said. “And this is partly because there has not been sufficient transparency from the Chinese government, and the WHO still needs to do more work to get to the end of exactly where this virus originated.”
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Despite pointing out these issues, Sullivan has repeatedly fired the Trump administration, which has severed ties with the WHO.
“I believe we need to take a variety of steps to look at the previous government’s response to the pandemic and what lessons we need to learn to ensure it never happens again,” he said.
Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.