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    WHO experts visit Wuhan market where first coronavirus infections were detected

    31 Jan 2021

    The mission, delayed by China and weighed down by political baggage, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from animal to human. Experts say the Huanan market still plays a role in tracing the origins of the virus, since the first cluster of cases was identified there.

    Wuhan returns to normal as world still battling pandemic

    23 Jan 2021

    Wuhan has been praised for its sacrifice in the service of the nation, turning it into a sort of Stalingrad in China’s war against the virus, commemorated in books, documentaries, TV shows and florid panegyrics from officials including head of state and leader of the Communist Party Xi Jinping.

    WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that took first coronavirus patients

    30 Jan 2021

    The group was driven to the Jinyintan Hospital, one of the city’s first to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a then-unknown virus, as the horrors of the virus emerged in the central Chinese city.

    WHO team arrives in China’s Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origins

    14 Jan 2021

    Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO’s top expert on animal diseases that cross to other species, who went to China on a preliminary mission last July, is leading the 10 independent experts, a WHO spokesman said.

    China says WHO Wuhan visit preparations ongoing

    09 Jan 2021

    The comments came after the WHO chief said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that Beijing had yet to finalise permission even as the team of experts had begun travelling to China to explore the beginnings of the virus, which first emerged in late 2019 in the central city.

    WHO-led team in Wuhan meet Chinese scientists

    29 Jan 2021

    The group is expected to spend two more weeks in China, and will visit the seafood market at the centre of the early outbreak. It will also visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology. One hypothesis, rejected by China, is that the outbreak was caused by a leak at the government lab.

    WHO-led team in China exits Wuhan quarantine

    28 Jan 2021

    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.

    Honda back to work in Wuhan with temperature and masks checks

    08 Apr 2020

    Temperature checkpoints and posters telling workers to keep more than a metre apart at Japanese automaker Honda Motor’s reopened plant in the Chinese city of Wuhan show how the coronavirus has created a new normal on the factory floor.

    Too little too soon

    09 May 2020

    Contradicting the current occupant of the White House Donald Trump who claims it was made in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China, McKie argues it evolved naturally from bats which have powerful immune systems and was transferred to another animal species.

    US and China rift: A new version of the US-Russia Cold War

    09 May 2020

    Trump and other administration officials claim that the virus, which many scientists say originally came from a bat, emerged from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan.

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