WHO team exits Wuhan quarantine to start Covid fact-finding mission
by Emma Graham-Harrison and agencies from Science | The Guardian on (#5DDYN)
Mission is politically charged as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in outbreak response
An 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-finding mission has been beset by controversy after the WHO accused China of dragging its heels over 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.
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