WHO Covid study team makes first site visit to Wuhan hospital
by Emma Graham-Harrison from on (#5DG8D)
World Health Organization experts conduct on-the-ground research into origins of pandemic in China
An international team of World Health Organization experts has visited a hospital in Wuhan, China, that saw some of the first cases of Covid in December 2019, as part of an on-the-ground investigation into the origins of the virus that caused the pandemic.
They are also expected to visit a food market linked to one of the first cluster of cases, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research facility with a large archive of bat coronaviruses, and the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control.
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