India has supported a 62-nation coalition led by the European Union & Australia to seek an independent investigation into the coronavirus pandemic.
New Delhi: India has supported calls to identify how the novel coronavirus was transmitted from animals to humans and conduct an ‘impartial’ evaluation of the WHO’s response to the pandemic, as per a draft resolution proposed for the WHO’s annual meet on Monday.
The most important on the agenda will be a resolution that is likely to ask China to open up for probe on the origin of the novel coronavirus.
China’s name hasn’t been mentioned in the resolution but says that there is need to keep working closely with other organizations to “identify the zoonotic source of the virus and the route of introduction to the human population, including the possible role of intermediate hosts” and to facilitate this through “collaborative field missions.”
India’s decision to sign off on the push for a probe led by the European Union and Australia is its first formally articulated stand on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The virus that first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan has, at last count, killed over 315,000 people worldwide and devastated the global economy.
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213 countries or territories have been affected by the highly contagious virus.
Globally, the total number of COVID-19 cases topped 4,700,000 as per the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has entered into a grim situation as it recorded 1.3 Million cases of COVID-19, about one-third of the entire world’s caseload, as per Johns Hopkins University data.
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