A World Health Organisation team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start 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 afternoon. The mission has become politically charged as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak. A major question is where the Chinese side will allow the researchers to go and who they will be able to talk to. Read More EU demands access to AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs produced in UK“This is now well over a year past when it all started,” he said.

Source: Irish Examiner January 28, 2021 07:49 UTC