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WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine to begin COVID-19 origins study
A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key points:
- China strongly opposed an independent investigation it could not fully control
- A major question was where the Chinese side would allow the researchers to go
- The mission had only came about after considerable wrangling between both sides
The researchers, who were required to complete 14 days in quarantine after arriving in China, could be seen leaving their hotel and boarding a bus on Thursday afternoon.
It was not immediately clear where they were headed.
The mission had become politically charged, as China sought to…
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