{"id":26419,"date":"2021-01-06T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/china-stalls-who-mission-to-investigate-origins-of-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-01-06T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:10:10","slug":"china-stalls-who-mission-to-investigate-origins-of-coronavirus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26419","title":{"rendered":"China stalls WHO mission to investigate origins of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN body says scientists were due to be deployed to country on Tuesday, but China says negotiations ongoing<\/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>China has attempted to downplay concerns over its refusal to authorise a fact-finding mission to the country by the World Health Organization to study the origins of Covid-19, saying it is still negotiating access with the UN body.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the head of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was \u201cvery disappointed\u201d that China had not authorised the entry of the 10-strong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/who-research-team-expected-to-travel-to-wuhan-to-investigate-coronavirus-origin\">research team<\/a>, led by Dr Peter Ben Embarek, China insisted there had been a \u201cmisunderstanding\u201d between the two sides about agreed dates for the visit, adding that discussions were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/china-stalls-who-mission-to-investigate-origins-of-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN body says scientists were due to be deployed to country on Tuesday, but China says negotiations ongoingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has attempted to downplay concerns over its refusal to authorise a fact-finding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[41,50,1066,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/26419","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}