WHO probe team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections were traced - Experts say the market still plays a role in tracing the origins of the virus since the first cluster of cases was identified there.
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected.
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The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 during a mission that has been tightly-controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early patients.
On its second day after two weeks in quarantine, the team went to Jinyintan Hospital, where doctors had collected samples from patients suffering from an unidentified pneumonia in late 2019.
“Important opportunity to talk directly w/ medics who were on the ground at that critical time fighting COVID!”, team member Peter Daszak said on Twitter.
2nd day on-the-ground in Wuhan meeting w/ leaders & staff at the famous Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital that treated large numbers of severe COVID cases early in the outbreak. Important opportunity to talk directly w/ medics who were on the ground at that critical time fighting COVID! Peter Daszak (@PeterDaszak) January 30, 2021
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