WHO says team in Wuhan to visit labs, markets and hospitals Reuters 28/01/2021
By Gabriel Crossley
WUHAN, China (Reuters) - A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will meet Chinese scientists on Friday and plans to visit labs, markets and hospitals in Wuhan, the WHO said.
The team left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.
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WUHAN, China (Reuters) - A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will meet Chinese scientists on Friday and plans to visit labs, markets and hospitals in Wuhan, the WHO said.
The team left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.
The mission has been plagued by delays, concern over access and bickering between China and the United States, which has accused China of hiding the extent of the initial outbreak and criticised the terms of the visit, under which Chinese experts conducted the first phase of research.
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WUHAN, China, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel on Thursday to begin fieldwork, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus emerged in late 2019.
The team boarded a bus and departed the hotel shortly after 3 p.m. local time (0700 GMT) without speaking to journalists. (Reporting by Gabriel Crossley Writing by Tony Munroe Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
World Health Organization experts emerged from quarantine in China today to begin a long-awaited inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, with the United States and Beijing sparring over the nature of the probe.
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A WHO team is in Wuhan studying the origin of the deadly Covid-19 virus.
The mission has finally started after some delays.
The virus continues to spread rapidly, but several countries have begun vaccine rollouts.
A World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.
The mission has been plagued by delays, concern over access and bickering between China and the United States, which has accused China of hiding the extent of the initial outbreak and criticised the terms of the visit, under which Chinese experts conducted the first phase of research.