Updated February 1st, 2021 at 16:30 IST

WHO team visit Wuhan Center for Disease Control

The WHO investigators arrived in Wuhan, the Hubei provincial capital, last month to look for clues and have visited hospitals that treated many of the earliest patients and a seafood market where cases of infection with the then-unknown virus emerged in December 2019.

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On the fourth full day of work, the World Health Organization (WHO) mission team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited the Wuhan Center for Disease Control, a key site in the early history of COVID-19. The team's visit to the center, which had an early hand in managing the outbreak, came amid tight Chinese controls on access to information about the virus.

The WHO investigators arrived in Wuhan, the Hubei provincial capital, last month to look for clues and have visited hospitals that treated many of the earliest patients and a seafood market where cases of infection with the then-unknown virus emerged in December 2019.

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Published February 1st, 2021 at 16:30 IST