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Team visits hospital where doctors treated early coronavirus patients
Reuters
January 30, 2021
Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, visits an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
WUHAN:
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 coronavirus 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.
WUHAN, Jan 30 The World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of Covid-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital today in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients. On its second day after two weeks in.
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Peter Daszak (right) and other members of the team tasked with investigating the origins of Sars-Cov-2 on a balcony at their hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China
Credit: REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) walk at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
WUHAN, China (Reuters) - A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 on Friday visited a hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was one of the first to treat patients in the early days of the outbreak.
After meeting with Chinese scientists earlier in the day, the team went to the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.
Zhang Jixian, director of the hospital s department of respiratory and critical care, has been cited by state media as the first to report the novel coronavirus, after treating an elderly couple in late 2019 whose CT scans showed differences from typical pneumonia.