German intelligence indicates that Chinese Xi put pressure on WHO to delay global warnings on COVID-19 in January.

German media has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping put pressure on the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in January so that he would not issue a broadcast. global warning about the coronavirus epidemic.

According to a January 21 conversation between the two, which quoted information from the German federal intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Xi urged the head of the WHO to "delay a global warning" about the pandemic and to remember information about humans Transmission of the virus, which, according to the BND, resulted in a delay of 4 to 6 weeks.

WHO issued a statement describing the allegations as "unfounded and untrue". China's foreign ministry said Beijing had responded "in a timely manner" and that it was "open and transparent" to alert countries around the world to the epidemic.

Tedros, former Minister of Health and Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, China's first client state, has been appointed head of WHO with the explicit support of Beijing.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has repeatedly warned that WHO "needs to know more than it knows". According to sources close to the American intelligence community. In the United States, WHO has been aware of the potential for a pandemic from China since September of last year.

The Chinese government did not officially recognize the virus until December 31 and WHO almost three months before declaring a pandemic on March 11.

Media reports last month showed that after Chinese authorities secretly determined that they were likely to face a pandemic, they warned the public several days later, and he was then too late. These days, the city of Wuhan held a massive banquet for tens of thousands of people, and millions began to travel for Lunar New Year celebrations.

On April 15, the largest German newspaper, Bild, charged Beijing 149 billion euros for damages caused in the country by the coronavirus pandemic.

77% of Germans think China is somewhat to blame for the coronavirus pandemic and think Beijing has been dishonest in its numbers, according to a May 7 opinion poll by London-based Redfield & Wilton Strategies of infection. 33% preferred more distance between the two countries.

Germany is just one of the growing number of countries demanding that China respond by hiding crucial information about the coronavirus epidemic from the rest of the world.