A World Health Organization (WHO) team of 13 scientists began its investigation work into the origins of the COVID-19 on Friday after concluding a 14-day quarantine in central China's Wuhan city. As part of its field visits, the team first went to the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, one of the first hospitals that had treated patients in the early days of the outbreak. The WHO experts started with the first face-to-face meeting with their Chinese counterparts to whom they were in touch with during 14-day quarantine through video conference.
WHO said earlier on Twitter that the team requested for detailed
underlying data and planned to speak with early responders and some of
the first COVID-19 patients. It also planned to visit markets such as
the Huanan Seafood Market linked to many of the first cases, the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and laboratories at facilities such as the Wuhan
Centre for Disease Control.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news conference in
Beijing, on Friday, that the WHO and Chinese experts are working
together to trace the origin of the virus. The first clusters of
COVID-19 were detected in Wuhan in late 2019. China has since reported
more than 89,000 cases and 4,600 deaths, with new cases largely
concentrated in its north-east, where local lockdowns and travel
restrictions were being imposed to contain the outbreaks.
(With input from news agency language)
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