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with around 28000000 people infected and approaching 1000000 dead the global corona virus pandemic continues to exact a heavy toll but after the 1st appearance of cope with 19 could the world health

organization and a few more effective in this new automating the international response a few months into the crisis a team of swiss italian filmmakers went in search of answers. we have the format the us system and that could be 19 could be kind of. funding. when the director general of the world health organization made this announcement on march 11th 2020 that came as little surprise to anyone by then from

its origins and who had china the coronavirus had been spreading internationally for at least 2 months already infecting 118000 people and a 114 countries. as we now know tens of millions more would eventually be infected and to date at least almost a 1000000 people have died as things stand the covered 1000 pandemic is far from over. yet back in those early uncertain weeks as the world was waking to an unprecedented threat the w.h.o. came on to face attack. the agency is responsible to the united nations leading the global risp. it's to contagious disease but critics accuse the organization of failing in its mission and of reacting too slowly to the parents of the coronavirus some even claimed it had been too ready to believe what it was 1st told by the chinese government about the nature and severity of this new disease. as these

criticisms grew we went to w.h.o. headquarters in geneva to find out if it senior officials could have done more sooner to allow the world. travel to be what. you bring with. me a joint. c. of the picayune. you will feature. a moment in. the mask. on january 5th the w.h.o. issued a reassuring press release about a mysterious new disease on the 31st of december 2019 the w.h.o. china country office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in rancid a total of $44.00 patients with pneumonia of unknown. based on the preliminary

information from the chinese investigation team no evidence of significant human to human transmission had been reported earlier joe advise is against the application of any travel trade restrictions on china. but if all was still common geneva in taiwan an infectious disease specialist had been having sleepless nights but i was december 31st the last day the end of the year. i saw it around 530 because i woke up really early that day just happened i couldn't sleep well. young many copies there pick up that message then the postcard to our lying group and found the very. interesting but also. there was a post about. a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia in china. talked a little you is the deputy director of taiwan center for disease control he says

that from the outside there were 3 crucial indications that something very serious was happening in china. the growth is there or be sure announcement by the us or storage to the hospitals these were reminding of the toll there is outbreak on your morning. happening in hospitalized patients so be careful about taking those cases and the 2nd message doctors reminding each other while be careful because it could be dangerous to us so be careful that these patients were isolated and that a certain message was about to doctors chatting about well in my hospital i've found so many cases of pneumonia and they seem to be associated with the full market and preliminary laboratory results there's it's probably sars.

the 2003 sars epidemic which also began in china infected over 8000 people around the world and killed 73 people in taiwan one of the worst affected countries it had left the taiwanese very sensitive to the dangers posed by viruses capable of human to human transmission in order to limit any such threat the authorities knew that very strict containment and isolation measures would be necessary. a round 630 it's still early in journalese it's ok for me to post in our colleagues web chat group so i i send a message on the chat group saying well there is an important message i just saw earlier on and we need to clarify that which the chinese authorities. but the center for disease control didn't just ask beijing for more information on december

31st it also raised the matter with the w.h.o. . the leather says new sources today indicate that at least 7 were to be called pneumonia cases were reported in china their health authorities replied to the media that the cases were believed not sars however the samples were still around during the examination and the cases are being isolated for treatment i would have greatly appreciated if you have relevant information to share with us thank you very much however louis chan and his colleagues at the c.d.c. believe the w.h.o. if only warnings about the virus because taiwan over which china came sovereignty is barred from full member status. check number one the house will sorties in beijing already which will they are on top of the event if it's really a event and number 2 it starts or not enough starts what can it be and are you

still investigating or not. that e-mail has since been at the center of a route between taiwan and the w.h.o. . according to taiwan the fact that patients had been placed in isolation was an intrinsic alert of a human to human transmitted disease. before say it doesn't turn into a man. i met said that by one chamber chair i doubt norman screws me scoop of. on me. and form its own conclusion from a science or so the for me. we thought well the method you we provided to that which will in addition to requesting more information was also. show you have. paid really careful attention to these events they they are.

they don't reply that they say well thank you we have received. taiwan decided it couldn't afford to wait for the w.h.o. on december 31st it began implementing its own emergency containment measures their response was to prove highly effective taiwan has a population of 25000000 and sits only 93 miles from the chinese mainland to date it has had 498 piece of corona virus and only 7 deaths meanwhile louis chan says the chinese authorities kept denying the problem no one else knows what he's put out a press release on these numbers so he 1st and the said well it's not it's not sars and there's no evidence of human to human transmission but we still think ahead we cannot risk the possibility that it's really sars. so after all these gusher internally other agents the news the prime minister's office we

decided to start on board. inspection of all the direct flights coming from things that day and those who do not how we had a wrong turn all of the right a weekly basis. by now residents and also becoming alarmed. of course i. want to read you so much of. sort of caught up in a shortage of. neurons i must try to as an italian who's lived a new hand since 2006. just look at this. hospital. subjects to.

support the medical costs. on january 23rd 3 weeks after the 1st news of the mysterious virus had leaked it was locked down by then over a 1000 people have been infected what happened in those crucial 3 weeks in january has yet to be fully explained it's rather hard to 3 weeks. almost to issue a press release on a daily basis and all these press release just to import a message number one it's being controlled well and i think there was a least more of one week there were like well they're on your case and you're on your case in new york the real new ok so it's it's providing. reassurance to the world while these outbreaks being well controlled don't worry about that. still number 2 they kept saying there was no evidence of human to human transmission.

the taiwanese c.d.c. had already implemented containment measures but it remained in contact with china . on january 13th along with experts from hong kong and macau it sent a delegation to hand to study the virus we have a meeting with the public knows it all because central provincial public has already to discuss to ask more questions about the clinical courses. as i mean to. report that there are $41.00 cases of the typical. $28.00 or associate with one on the full market. and 13 cases. totally no association with while and she feels like it is a point i think we need to nor about at him and then the origin of the protein case . the chairperson of the meetin who came from a local authority has said that. there is no evidence or human to human

transmission 1st and now we have another discussion and finally the central government officials said that what you say was always a mission now we see in. the media human to human transmission cannot be excluded from. shewn there were reports of damage or really soon. that crucial news doesn't seem to have reached the w.h.o. . on january 14th tokenize ations director general to draw scuppering sauce tweeted that there was no evidence of human to human transmission. looks like they just totally trust beijing. and all of these 2 weeks 1st 2 weeks in january. there were basically copycat.

remember stay organized. to the members they. cannot member states. in the mean time i think they need the chinese government right to call for a write. in the beginning you basically take. it that. the chinese government. is a professor of global health studies at sutton hole university in new jersey and an expert on the chinese health system. that is not. government giving was the national health commission in china and the return is my understanding and my research suggested that even the national health

commission was and you formed the severity of the true nature of the outbreak so there was clearly local government. by your twenty's even though by that time it was an open secret in the front line. you know there was human to human transmission i should steal you know basically stopped at the official. snow. you mean to human transmission. with the very poor in pain that gives him over to the father so much for them into normal notified of it's on a regular basis on a call about this you know there's a. lot of this but i think that it will make you cool to be saying but i. don't want to be there. on this course of work because it. yet

and early january data collected by chinese hospitals late to published by the new england journal of medicine confirmed that there had been human transmission. it is proven that since mid december human to human transmission happened among people who were in close contact with each other. the 1st 6 people came from the seafood market from january 1 to january 11th but over 80 percent of the patients had never been there. according to the same data 70 percent had never had contact with the patients therefore they have been affected by asymptomatic people. but parents out there. at the last we. teach them greater where they are god 3 live events and cora both of these have on for mackay aid that aim to be privy to the journey the instructor and so they seem to

me ok in the context of that i'm asking of ok being going to miss a good trainer in chris i was reading it really reduce the scene to matthew cooper the thing it's on and on the thought that after the daughter and money 1st that sonia's then the we paul has spread the money erson if you get the u.s.b. who's. going to get it wherever 'd he said it was he shouldn't get away with this. shit it's just so much better there are but. there is conservative. did you know we shared. some of the one of the brilliant western artist most of the good shit on the less intimate machine i mean clinton was really going to. sort of get in with an issue in effect are going to have got to have been meddlesome and senior in that sense. in the center i believe that's mr. hume going to. the future a toaster or sinister bankrupt or. religious 200 is something of

a hero in italy having led the fight against the pandemic and benito where he is the regional scientific advisor it was thanks to his intuitions on the contagiousness of the symptomatic people that the virus in the area was brought under control. but really there was shut off she actually took there the raw work computer meant it took up a good show in a moment 2000000000 children and then. the said earlier. that it was even a good shirt off of america as you come out of your 2nd look at america going to the most radical decisions about who should enter this method that's just sort of. interested to look people. but you don't need weapons or do you want to grab it out where the meter should emerge it. just ripped out of the rubble that's a little bit. you know get a muscular instead be that when the body getting it does she know about i'm going

to be sure to start our mission will be you know it's term it will be more to the people that. will face madness i'll be among the number one. important successful actors that one can have controlled well. i mean i think he is special because. a lot of the patients are actually symptomatic with me they don't need them to do anything so all you'd be only ask people we think turns to wear a mask you will meet a big proportion of those who can still trance meet but there was no protection of the patient to others. that can not see staticky because even cheesy the hour did not have to to be put that it was to my. again where have all the journalists who more of us run that a list in the manger for them that. they care support in the schools is purcell

this awesome was. the thing maybe then our dog the chicken or. our might or measure the distance or censor my screen no longer say i want the quest but a few days after this interview was recorded on june 5th the w.h.o. changed its guidelines on mosques which are to general dr dre's in light of evolving evidence doubly sure advises that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is widespread transmission and physically started seeing is difficult it's this kind of apparent inconsistency that has brought the w.h.o. criticism which the organization says is unfair. you know everything. when i talk with. your non-committal. they are already.

on a c c. but what still puzzles many is why it took the w.h.o. so long to declare events in china a public health emergency of international concern this fake notice would have galvanized the international community into an earlier and arguably more effective response but weeks after the w.h.o. was notified about the roof outbreak the matter was still under discussion actually was the director general decided to. be declaring say. just. it's action. used basically the government chinese government provided. is working without a partner it is night and day in china and the other affected countries at the

regional level and here at the headquarters to fill the gaps in our knowledge as quickly as possible wides shining. the fake. trying to make disease reagan's fish. no country. shining. finally on january the 29th 10 truscott france sauce flew to china on an official visit. to. start serious measures. it is. phrasing you few see leave a chinese response you have to also recognize the mission mishandling of the heartbreak you know if they could just say well you did a great job of responding to the outbreak

a you know even though we're in the beginning you miss and you know that there may act and they'll call never you know i think that would howl that you gave me more credibility on his return on january 30th the w h o's director general finally declared a state of international emergency. health checks were now among the measures it suggested to member states for weeks after taiwan had implemented the same procedures but surprisingly the w.h.o. did not recommend any travel restrictions with china and. doesn't the common and actually open. any regions for travel and trade or under against it but that probably is that. consistency. in the go there to guide us. crazy right the chinese government for taking those

drastic. measures might you need me to write the seediness move back into writing. but in the meantime you were telling other countries like don't impose those travel restrictions to continue to accept. the passengers from china. when i could organize and so on across. the reporter common. people. you see in those. it would be another 2 weeks before the w.h.o. sent its own group of experts to study the situation in china initially the official program didn't even include a visit to the. at the center of the epidemic where there were 56000 cases of infection. after pushing back the expensive venture he spent 24 hours in the city. to the surprise of many their final report continue to emphasize the w.h.o.

his position at contagion from asymptomatic patients was not clear and was in any case rare. this is al-jazeera. out of there on the clock this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes police in lesbo start moving thousands of refugees into a new makeshift camp despite demands they be taken to mainland groups. damaged in power cuts but worse could be yet to come as floodwaters begin to build in america's southern states. fears of more flooding in sudan continues to witness heavy rainfall we live in one of the worst affected regions. also ahead how potential covert 19 vaccines are being used for political gains and warnings almost half of the promise supply has been bought up by rich nations.