{"id":26682,"date":"2021-01-12T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/who-experts-covid-mission-not-about-finger-pointing-at-china"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:00:30","slug":"who-experts-covid-mission-is-not-about-finger-pointing-at-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26682","title":{"rendered":"WHO experts: Covid mission is not about finger pointing at China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists express caution about what they may find and the political sensitivity around investigation<\/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>When the scientists on the World Health Organization\u2019s mission to research the origins of Covid-19 touch down in China as expected on Thursday at the beginning of their investigation they are clear what they will \u2013 and what they will not \u2013 be doing.<\/p>\n<p>They intend to visit Wuhan, the site of the first major outbreak of Covid-19, and talk to Chinese scientists who have been studying the same issue. They will want to see if there are unexamined samples from unexplained respiratory illnesses, and they will want to examine ways in which the virus might have jumped the species barrier to humans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/who-experts-covid-mission-not-about-finger-pointing-at-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists express caution about what they may find and the political sensitivity around investigationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the scientists on the World Health Organization\u2019s mission to research the origins of &#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":[41,50,1066,346,914,916,299,79,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682","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=26682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions\/26699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}