{"id":26620,"date":"2021-01-11T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/11\/china-agrees-to-let-in-who-team-investigating-covid-origins"},"modified":"2021-01-11T23:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:32:21","slug":"china-agrees-to-let-in-who-team-investigating-covid-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26620","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Set expectations low&#8217;: verdict unlikely from WHO team exploring Covid origins in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health expert says investigative mission to China is important but don\u2019t expect conclusive outcome<\/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>Expectations should be set very low that a World Health Organization team of experts investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will reach any definitive conclusion from their first trip to China, a health expert affiliated with the WHO has said.<\/p>\n<p>China authorised the visit on Monday, after almost a year of negotiations with the WHO, and opinion is divided over how much access the mission will be allowed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/11\/china-agrees-to-let-in-who-team-investigating-covid-origins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health expert says investigative mission to China is important but don\u2019t expect conclusive outcomeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExpectations should be set very low that a World Health Organization team of experts investiga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,1066,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/26620","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions\/26661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}