{"id":101595,"date":"2020-04-26T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101595"},"modified":"2020-04-26T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T22:59:46","slug":"us-notified-israel-about-coronavirus-in-mid-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/26\/us-notified-israel-about-coronavirus-in-mid-november\/","title":{"rendered":"US notified Israel about coronavirus in mid-November"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy PressTV<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister\n     Benjamin Netanyahu (R) attend a press conference in the East Room of the\n     White House, in Washington DC, the US, on January 28, 2020. (Photo by AFP)\n     <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An Israeli TV network claims that US intelligence agencies\nknew of an emerging coronavirus outbreak in China and gave Israel an advance\nwarning in mid-November 2019, more than a month before clusters of infection in\nChina started to be globally reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US intelligence agencies had become aware of the outbreak\nas it spread early on in central China\u2019s Wuhan City, Israel\u2019s i24 news website\ncited a report by Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agencies decided to warn US allies, such as the North\nAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and Israel, after initially\npassing the information on to the White House, which did not deem it of\ninterest,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report did not specify when US intelligence agencies\nallegedly first learned of the coronavirus outbreak before notifying Israel in\nNovember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report added that the information reached Israel\u2019s\ndecision-makers and the Health Ministry\u201d shortly later, but ultimately\nnothing\u201d was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revelation comes a week after the US-based ABC News\npublished a report citing informed sources as saying that US intelligence\nservices had been warning since November that a potentially cataclysmic\u201d\noutbreak was unfolding in Wuhan.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/04\/12\/622834\/www.presstv.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.presstv.com\/photo\/20200412\/75a55391-6bfc-49a8-9d13-09aef108ae01.jpg\" alt=\"US intelligence knew of China's coronavirus outbreak as early as November: Report\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/04\/12\/622834\/www.presstv.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>US intelligence knew of China&#8217;s\ncoronavirus outbreak as early as November: Report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/04\/12\/622834\/www.presstv.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US intelligence\nreportedly predicted COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ABC report was, however, rejected by US President\nDonald Trump a day after its publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Friday, more than 2.14 million confirmed coronavirus\ncases have been reported across the world, and 143,744 people have died,\naccording to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China, the initial epicenter of the global pandemic, reported its first coronavirus infection on December 31, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/04\/17\/623241\/www.presstv.co.uk\">https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/04\/17\/623241\/www.presstv.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy PressTV US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) attend a press conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington DC, the US, on January 28, 2020. (Photo by AFP) An Israeli TV network claims that US intelligence agencies knew of an emerging coronavirus outbreak in China and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}