新冠肺炎|袁國勇BBC訪問:武漢官員曾掩飾疫情 內地淡化嚴重性

撰文:李福源
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香港大學微生物學系講座教授袁國勇周一(27日)接受英國廣播公司(BBC)訪問時表示,相信湖北武漢市官員曾掩飾新型冠狀病毒(COVID-19)肺炎疫情,未有即時對外公佈信息,當時抵達武漢時,只見「犯罪現場」已被打亂破壞 ;他又指雖然病毒有人傳人的證據,惟內地當局不斷淡化疫情的嚴重性。
有關報道獲多間英國傳媒轉載,如英國《THE SUN》 (太陽報)有全篇報道,惟不見BBC網頁有原始報道,原上載於BBC YouTube頻道的影片,不遲於本港時間今日凌晨2時半轉為私人影片,無法瀏覽。
就該新聞片段下架,BBC發言人於今日下午(28日)回覆稱,因有關新聞片段材料的權限未釐清。(The news clip was removed because correct permissions for the material had not been fully cleared.)

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袁國勇在1月18日以獲邀專家身份,親身到武漢了解。他受訪時稱,當日他們前往被視為爆發疫情源頭的華南海鮮市場時,見到市場已經完全清理好,沒有什麼可以看,「就像『犯罪現場』已被打亂破壞,讓我們無辦法確認導致人類受感染的病毒動物宿主。我的確懷疑他們(武漢市官員)曾掩飾疫情,未有即時對外公佈信息。」

(I do suspect that they have been doing some cover-up locally in Wuhan. The local officials who are supposed to be immediately relaying the information has not allowed this to be done as rapidly as it should.)

(When we went to the Wuhan seafood market, of course there was nothing to see because the market was cleaned already.

So you may say that the crime scene was already disturbed because the seafood market was cleared we cannot identify the animal host which is giving the virus to humans.)

袁國勇又說,雖然病毒有人傳人的證據,惟內地當局不斷淡化疫情的嚴重性,「我知道這種病毒傳播得非常有效率,亦知道它可以與人一起透過飛機散播至千里之外。(在SARS爆發期間)我明白了一件事,如果你沒有把握好每分每秒,後果會非常嚴重。」

(I know how efficient the virus was spreading and I know that it is acquired in hospital and I know that it can go with people by flights from one city, thousands of miles away.

There is one thing that I learned [during the SARS outbreak] … if you don’t make use of every hour, you are in big, big trouble.)

(以上英語版本引述英國《THE SUN》報道)

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中國駐英國大使劉曉明5月14日曾表示,中方及時與世衛組織和國際社會分享了疫情信息,「根本不存在任何隱瞞」,強調中國採取「早發現、早報告、早隔離、早治療」的舉措十分有效,不能因為中國死亡人數較低,就指責中國「掩蓋數據」或「隱瞞事實」。

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