{"id":25741,"date":"2020-12-16T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/who-research-team-expected-to-travel-to-wuhan-to-investigate-coronavirus-origin"},"modified":"2020-12-16T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:04:45","slug":"who-research-team-expected-to-travel-to-wuhan-to-investigate-coronavirus-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25741","title":{"rendered":"WHO research team expected to travel to Wuhan to investigate coronavirus origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission will start work in January and will examine medical samples and animals to see where and when Covid-19 began <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to arrive in Wuhan next month to investigate how the novel coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, and whether it emerged earlier or in a different place than originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Leendertz, a biologist at Germany\u2019s Robert Koch Institute and a member of the WHO\u2019s 10-person mission team, told the Associated Press they will be working with Chinese scientists for four to five weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/who-research-team-expected-to-travel-to-wuhan-to-investigate-coronavirus-origin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission will start work in January and will examine medical samples and animals to see where and when Covid-19 began Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25741\/revisions\/25742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}