WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers, who were required to complete 14 days in quarantine after arriving in China, left their quarantine hotel and boarded a bus in the midafternoon. The mission has become politically charged, as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak. Image: Workers are seen inside hotel where a team of experts from the World Health Organization are quarantined in Wuhan in centra China’s Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. 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 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Egypt Independent January 28, 2021 07:52 UTC