WHO team arrives in Wuhan to test sources of COVID-19 pandemic

WHO team arrives in Wuhan to test sources of COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Post By : Kumar Jeetendra

  • Source: PTI

  • Date: 14 Jan,2021

A team of WHO experts arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to investigate the origins of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Tuesday reported that the team will fly from Singapore to Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December 2019.

The World Health Organisation team’s visit has become a bone of contention as Beijing, which concerns the widely-held view about the virus’ roots in Wuhan, had delayed granting permission to it.

China has been proactively questioning the view that the deadly outbreak happened in a wet market in Wuhan where live animals, birds and reptiles are sold and spread to people.

According to Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracker, over 92,313,000 individuals are confirmed with the disease throughout the world and more than 1,977,000 individuals have died.

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