WHO sends Canadian-led team to Beijing to study novel coronavirus outbreak

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In Geneva, hundreds of experts are preparing for a two-day conference that will set global priorities for studying and fighting 2019-nCoV

The advance team of experts that landed in Beijing on Monday is led by Canadian Bruce Aylward, seen here in Geneva on July 7, 2016, an epidemiologist, emergencies physician and long-time WHO staff member.In China, a small team of international experts led by a Canadian epidemiologist arrived on Monday and got to work investigating the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Some critics say the agency has heaped more praise on China than its government deserves, while others worry about the long-term consequences of some member states defying the WHO’s advice against closing borders to travellers from China. "If I was the head of the World Health Organization, my No. 1 priority would be to keep China engaged in the global response. If the cost of doing that was praising China, then I would do it.”

However, Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, told reporters Monday that the agency’s physicians and scientists were already in constant contact with their Chinese counterparts.

 

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