The link to the video on “Long Covid” presented last month at the International Conference on Genomics in China (ICG-17). As a member of the advisory board, I have been giving lectures since 2011. This year, more than 600,000 attended the conference on site and by Zoom. I have also acknowledged my Chinese colleagues and friends who played a crucial role for China funding the building of Africa CDC in Addis at a cost of US $80 million. We succeeded in overcoming US’s effort to block Africa CDC from being built in Addis (picture attached).
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Xe4y1x7Mk?t=162.8
US warns over Chinese ‘spying’ on African disease control centre | Financial Times (Feb 6, 2020) The Trump administration has cited concerns over Beijing’s scientific spying programme as the reason it wants to block a Chinese plan to build an $80m headquarters for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Ethiopia, amid growing competition for influence in the continent.
Tilahun Yilma, DVM, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Virology, Emeritus
Associate Fellow, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
Member, US National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Department of Medical Micro/Immunology
School of Medicine
University of California Davis, CA 95616
