China gives pledge on access for Covid-19 origins probe - WHO

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| The World Health Organization has had assurances from China that an international field trip to investigate the origins of the new coronavirus will be arranged as soon as possible, its top emergenc

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y expert said on Monday.

The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December, prompting US President Donald Trump to label it the "China plague" and accuse the WHO of being soft on Beijing. Wuhan market is "likely to have been a point of amplification" of virus transmission, but whether that was by human, animal or environmental spread is not yet known, he said, adding that there had been human cases that preceded that event.

A senior Western diplomat who participated said that several states had raised concerns on how the international members had contributed to drafting their final terms and asked what steps the WHO had taken to ensure that the information collected in phase 1 would be "complete and transparent".

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