WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins

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A team of 13 World Health Organization scientists have arrived in Wuhan, to investigate the origins of coronavirus. 9News

They will undergo a two-week quarantine as well as a throat swab test and an antibody test for COVID-19, according to CGTN, the English-language channel of state broadcaster CCTV.The team includes virus and other experts from the United States, Australia, Germany, Japan, Britain, Russia, the Netherlands, Qatar and Vietnam.

One possibility is that a wildlife poacher might have passed the virus to traders who carried it to Wuhan, one of the WHO team members, zoologist Peter Daszak of the US group EcoHealth Alliance, told The Associated Press in November. "The WHO will need to conduct similar investigations in other places," an official of the National Health Commission, Mi Feng, said on Wednesday.Some members of the WHO team were en-route to China a week ago but had to turn back after Beijing announced they hadn't received valid visas.

According to WHO's published agenda for its origins research, there are no plans to assess whether there might have been an accidental release of the coronavirus at the Wuhan lab, as some American politicians, including President Donald Trump, have claimed.

 

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Next headline... 13 WHO officials reported missing in China.

I bet when they're done and leave China WHO will hold a press conference to tell the world nothing was found relating to covid 19 and where it was originated.

Guess they must’ve now finished destroying the evidence.

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