{"id":24761,"date":"2020-05-02T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/amid-attack-from-trump-who-praises-china-for-handling-coronavirus-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:53:37","slug":"amid-attack-from-trump-who-praises-china-for-handling-coronavirus-pandemic-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24761","title":{"rendered":"Amid attack from Trump, WHO praises China for handling coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many countries, including Germany, Britain and Australia, are blaming China for the spread of coronavirus<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organisation has praised China for handling the coronavirus pandemic and said that the countries need to learn from Wuhan on how the epicentre of the virus was bringing the society back to normal, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump likened the global health body to a public relations agency for Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump on Thursday said the WHO should be \u201cashamed\u201d of itself, as he compared the UN\u2019s health organ to a public relations agency for China amidst the coronavirus pandemic after it originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has launched a probe into the role of the WHO on coronavirus, and has temporarily suspended the U.S.\u2019 financial assistance to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many countries, including Germany, Britain and Australia, are blaming China for the spread of coronavirus, that has killed over 2,35,000 people globally, including 64,000 Americans, and has infected 3.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting that there are zero COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, Maria van Kerkhove, the technical lead for the WHO\u2019s Health Emergencies Programme at a virtual press briefing in Geneva, said, \u201cthat\u2019s very very welcome news to hear that there are no more severe cases, no more patients in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo congratulations on this achievement,\u201d state-run Xinhua news agency quoted her as saying on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world has learned from China and we need to continue to learn from Wuhan on how they are lifting those measures, how they are bringing society back to normal, or a new normal, in terms of how we\u2019re going to live with this virus going forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health officials in Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged in December last year, said all COVID-19 cases were cleared from hospitals on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hubei province and its capital Wuhan have not reported coronavirus cases for 28 consecutive days since April 4, the local health commission said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The central province also lowered its emergency level from highest to next level on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lowering of the emergency level shows a major breakthrough in Hubei\u2019s prevention and control against COVID-19, Vice-Governor of Hubei Yang Yunyan told the media on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The province, however, reported 647 asymptomatic cases, which are under medical observation. Hubei has so far reported 68,128 confirmed COVID-19 cases in total, including 50,333 in Wuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid criticism of under reporting of cases, Wuhan on April 17 revised its death toll by 50%, taking the number of fatalities to 3,869.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death toll in China stood at 4,633 as of Thursday, with 82,874 overall confirmed cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the China-WHO joint experts, who visited China in February for a field study, van Kerkhove said, \u201cChina has worked very hard to bring the outbreak under control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was there for two weeks and working directly with ministry officials, and officials from all different sectors, from hospitals, through communities, to really see what was put in place to bring those numbers down,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Kerkhove said she appreciated the \u201ctireless efforts\u201d of the people in Wuhan \u201cnot just the healthcare workers but the individuals who stayed in their homes, who adhered to the public health measures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe take our hats off to you, and we thank you for your commitment and your service, and for sharing with us in the world what you\u2019ve been able to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also asked people in Wuhan to \u201cremain vigilant,\u201d in case new cases appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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