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Thursday September 9 2021 The Star I THINK we all shared a collective sigh of relief when the announcement came that we were shifting to delta alert level 2. Congratulations to all the people who worked so hard to adapt their businesses to these rules in time for the new level to kick in. This week I have been watching a series on Netflix called Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror. I cannot believe that this Saturday is the 20 th anniversary of a terror attack that changed our world forever. I read somewhere someone describing the series as harrowing. That is an understatement. It is gut-wrenching. The courage of firefighters and police on the day, running into the towers as people were pouring out, is memorialised here in Christchurch by A Tribute to Firefighters, a sculpture designed by Graham Bennett. It has been fashioned from steel, from the New York World Trade Centre Mayor Lianne Dalziel site, which was gifted by the City of New York to the City of Christchurch to honour all firefighters worldwide. I will lay a tribute there on Saturday. At the same time the series causes us to reflect on the response to 9/11 and the devastation that has caused. When we look at what is happening in Afghanistan today, and then look behind the actions that OPINION 19 Event to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 were taken 20 years ago in response to the attack, we need to ask questions about what was intended to be achieved. A silver lining was that we opened our doors and our hearts to Afghan asylum seekers 20 years ago when we saw them on the decks of the Tampa in a stand-off with the Australian Government. We should open our doors again. Faced with COVID-19, We Need A Scientific Approach The recent level 4 lockdown in New Zealand shows us that the threat of COVID-19, especially its Delta variant, is still lingering. Based on experts’ advise, the New Zealand government has taken decisive measures to rapidly bring this outbreak under control, which once again proves that how important a scientific and cautious approach is needed when dealing with this pandemic. However, these measures also drew criticisms from some other countries. This reminds us of the same situation China faced when strict lockdown measures were implemented in Wuhan and Hubei province at early stage of the pandemic. When China worked with the WHO on dealing with the COVID-19 origin-tracing issue in the past few months, we still heard some unfair criticisms. COVID-19 has been highly politicized in some countries. As a result, science and scientists’ opinions had to take a back seat to politics and politicians. For example, up till now, over 34 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19 and nearly 650,000 already lost their lives to the virus. However, some US politicians are still debating whether mask-wearing, vaccination and lockdown measures are effective or necessary. Wearing masks or taking vaccines are not self-protection measures but political gestures in some parts of the U.S.. We could still recall some absurd statements from the U.S. politicians which indicated the COVID-19 was a big flu and disinfectants could kill the virus,etc. On the other hand, some issues like origintracing and vaccine aid were used as excuses to shift blame on to China or shirk responsibility for its own poor response to the pandemic. As the first country reporting the outbreak of COVID-19, China has been open and transparent on the issue of origin-tracing and invited WHO experts to China twice. Early this year, China and WHO experts conducted a joint study in China. The joint mission made field trips to institutions including the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and visited bio-safety laboratories, where they had in-depth, candid and scienceoriented exchanges with local experts. Experts from WHO said on multiple occasions that they had accessed large amounts of data and information. On March, WHO released a joint study report clearly concluding that lab leak from Wuhan was “extremely unlikely”. However, the WHO newly-released work plan still lists the hypothesis that “a Chinese violation of laboratory protocols had caused the virus to leak during research” as a research priority, and deliberately ignores other important research priorities in relation to earlier cases which emerged globally including in the U.S. and coldchain transmission of the virus. On July 15th, permanent representatives of 48 countries to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed the Director General of WHO and called on the WHO Secretariat to cooperate with member states to advance the study of origins around the world, and to take effective measures to prevent political factors from interfering with the study process. This reflects the strong appeal from the international community. COVID-19 is a common enemy of mankind and can only be defeated by solidarity and cooperation of the international community. Any issue concerning this pandemic, including its origin-tracing or prevention and control strategy is a matter of science, and should be deliberated on by scientists. We hope that all countries could handle COVID-19 pandemic in the spirit of science, professionalism and objectivity and get rid of political interference. Wang Zhijian Chinese Consul General in Christchurch This advertisement is paid for by the Chinese Consulate
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