WHO-led team in China exits Wuhan quarantine - GulfToday

WHO-led team in China exits Wuhan quarantine

  • 28 Jan 2021
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WHO team members tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease pandemic leave their quarantine hotel in Wuhan. 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 3pm local time (0700 GMT) without speaking to journalists.

Reuters

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