WHO team exits Wuhan quarantine to start Covid fact-finding mission

Mission is politically charged as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in outbreak responseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn international team of World Health Organization experts has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan, to begin much-delayed fieldwork into the origins of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic.The fact-findingmission has been beset by controversy after the WHO accused China ofdragging its heelsover arrangements. The team arrived more than a year after doctors in the city first raised the alarm about a mystery new illness spreading among their patients.Continue reading...
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