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COVID-19 pandemic crisis was made worse by tense geopolitical relations: health expert
Geopolitical tensions had bled into the global health response, she said, pointing to how the US-China trade war had morphed into a geopolitical blame game .
Jan 07, 2021 13:15:57 IST
Geopolitical tensions in play before the Covid-19 pandemic coloured the international health response, dramatically deepening the crisis, a renowned political scientist and global health expert told
AFP. Over a year after the novel coronavirus first surfaced in China, more than 1.8 million people have died and nearly 86 million have been infected with the virus worldwide. It did not have to be this bad, said Ilona Kickbusch, the founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre in Geneva.
China has blocked the arrival of a team from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that their visas had not yet been approved even as some members of the group were on their way.
A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicised visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a whitewash
An expert mission to China to probe the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was in disarray Wednesday after Beijing denied entry to the World Health Organization t