{"id":26786,"date":"2021-01-14T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/china-records-first-covid-death-since-may-as-who-team-arrives-in-wuhan"},"modified":"2021-01-14T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:44:00","slug":"china-records-first-covid-death-since-may-as-who-team-arrives-in-wuhan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26786","title":{"rendered":"China records first Covid death since May as WHO team arrives in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation arrives as China suffers growing outbreak of coronavirus in Hebei province<\/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>Mainland China has reported its first Covid-19 death in eight months, as a team of experts from the World Health Organisation landed in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation will quarantine for two weeks before beginning their inquiries. Their arrival, which was live-streamed by state media, came after almost a year of negotiations with the WHO, and diplomatic spats between China \u2013 which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/29\/a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-story\">trying to change the narrative<\/a> about where the virus came from \u2013 and other countries who demanded it allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/29\/australia-insists-who-inquiry-into-covid-origin-must-be-robust-despite-china-tensions\">a \u201crobust\u201d independent investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/china-records-first-covid-death-since-may-as-who-team-arrives-in-wuhan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation arrives as China suffers growing outbreak of coronavirus in Hebei provinceCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMainland China has reported its first Covid-19 death in eight months, as a team of experts from the World H&#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":[41,50,1066,914,512,299,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","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\/26786","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=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}