{"id":27526,"date":"2021-01-30T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/who-covid-study-team-makes-first-site-visit-to-wuhan-hospital"},"modified":"2021-01-30T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:00:55","slug":"who-covid-study-team-makes-first-site-visit-to-wuhan-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27526","title":{"rendered":"WHO Covid study team makes first site visit to Wuhan hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization experts conduct on-the-ground research into origins of pandemic in China<\/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>An international team of World Health Organization experts has visited a hospital in Wuhan, China, that saw some of the first cases of Covid in December 2019, as part of an on-the-ground investigation into the origins of the virus that caused the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They are also expected to visit a food market linked to one of the first cluster of cases, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/could-covid-19-be-manmade-what-we-know-about-origins-trump-chinese-lab-coronavirus\">Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/a>, a research facility with a large archive of bat coronaviruses, and the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/who-covid-study-team-makes-first-site-visit-to-wuhan-hospital\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization experts conduct on-the-ground research into origins of pandemic in ChinaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn international team of World Health Organization experts has visited a hospital in Wuhan, Ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[50,1066,346,914,916,299,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27526","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27527,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27526\/revisions\/27527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}