WHO team to travel to China to discover origins of (representational) coronavirus
Beijing:
China said on Wednesday that a team from the World Health Organization (WHO) will visit the country to trace the origin of COVID-19.
The disease, which originated in the city of Wuhan in China, has killed more than 500,000 people worldwide, and cases and deaths are increasing daily.
“After consultation, the Chinese government has agreed that the World Health Organization (WHO) will send a team of experts to Beijing to trace the origin of COVID-19,” said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. Zhao Lijian at a press conference.
The ANI announced last week that a WHO team will travel to China to find the origins of the coronavirus.
The visit will take place more than six months after the WHO country office in China received a statement from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission on cases of “viral pneumonia”.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke in January of an agreement with China to send a team of international experts “as soon as possible” to work towards a better understanding of the epidemic .
On January 29, the Director-General of WHO spoke of his agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the organization would lead a team of international experts to China “as soon as possible” to work with the government to improve understanding the epidemic and guiding global response efforts.
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