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World Health Organization (WHO) investigators probing the origins of the coronavirus in China are unlikely to be allowed to meet with critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) s handling of the early stages of the pandemic, an overseas-based rights group said on Monday.
The team visited two disease control centers on Monday that had an early hand in managing the outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Since emerging from a 14-day quarantine period, the team which has said it isn t trying to apportion blame for the pandemic have also visited hospitals and a seafood market linked to an early cluster of cases.
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Two uniformed guards wielding thermometers stand at the public entrance of what was once Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, and watch as I fumble with my phone.
To gain entry, they tell me to scan a QR code and register my details on a contact-tracing platform. But my signal is weak and an error message flashes on my screen. I show it to them. ‘It’s not working.’
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian s Regular Press Conference on January 13, 2021
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State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi just concluded his visit to Myanmar. What are the outcomes and highlights of this visit?
Zhao Lijian: During State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi s visit to Myanmar, he met with President U Win Myint, had talks with State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and met with Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, and U Kyaw Tint Swe, Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor. Both sides reached a 12-point political consensus on future bilateral relations. Eight concrete outcomes were signed or announced.
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A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, Lee Cheuk-Yan, protests on Monday against the jailing of Zhang Zhan, whose image appears in the poster behind him. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)
(Adds reaction from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo)
(CNSNews.com) – Days before a team of international experts is expected to visit Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, China’s jailing of a citizen journalist for her critical coverage of the outbreak is drawing strong condemnation, including from the U.S. government and the United Nations.
Zhang Zhan was convicted in Shanghai on Monday of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, according to her lawyer.