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The United States called on China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in the central city of Wuhan, drawing a rebuke from Beijing…
The United States, which has accused China of hiding the extent of its initial outbreak, has called for a “transparent” WHO-led investigation and criticised the terms of the visit, under which Chinese experts have done the first phase of research.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) expert team has arrived in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, where the first COVID-19 outbreak was reported in China, a Chinese expert suggested that to aid the WHO’s investigation into the origin of the virus, there should be a comprehensive epidemiological survey into first 10 or 20 patients in Wuhan, to find whether they were locally infected or have any links to overseas travel or to foreign
United States’ Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, said the US would continue to call for a transparent and thorough investigation into the origin of COVID-19.