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N MARCH, President Joe Biden asked his spooks how the covid-19 pandemic had started. Contradicting claims made last year by Donald Trump, who said the intelligence services had shown him very strong evidence on the matter, they told him that that they did not know. So on May 26th he asked them again, publicly this time, admonishing them to try harder and to report back in 90 days.
This is a direct rebuke to China’s secretive government. When experts convened by the World Health Organisation (
WHO) travelled to Wuhan, the city where covid-19 was first identified, in January and February this year their hosts refused to share crucial data. A senior Biden administration official said recently that he found those efforts to “undermine serious investigations” into the pandemic’s beginnings particularly troubling, and that they left “many more questions than answers”.
Alan Grieve and Trevor Petersen, both independent non-executive directors, informed the Board of their
intention to retire as directors of the Company upon the conclusion of their second three-year term of
appointment on 14 February 2022. The Board is in the process of actively recruiting two new independent non-
executive directors and the Company will make further announcements when it is in a position to confirm the
appointments.
International Limited (a predecessor company to Mediclinic International plc) on 13 September 2012 and that
despite the Boardâs views to the contrary, the length of their tenure may, under the UK Corporate Governance
Code, be viewed as impairing their independence. In view of this, and in the interests of continuity and