{"id":27588,"date":"2021-01-31T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/who-wuhan-market-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-01-31T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:42:30","slug":"who-team-visits-wuhan-market-where-covid-19-first-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27588","title":{"rendered":"WHO team visits Wuhan market where Covid-19 first detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market is landmark in Chinese city traumatised as epicentre of what became the pandemic <\/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> A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/how-did-the-coronavirus-start-where-did-it-come-from-how-did-it-spread-humans-was-it-really-bats-pangolins-wuhan-animal-market\">Huanan market<\/a>, the now shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the virus was initially detected.<\/p>\n<p>The team arrived at Huanan amid heavy security, with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence surrounding the market, and left in a convoy after about one hour. The experts did not take questions from journalists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/31\/who-wuhan-market-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market is landmark in Chinese city traumatised as epicentre of what became the pandemic Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage  A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have visited Hua&#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":[41,50,1066,346,914,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-society","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\/27588","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=27588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions\/27599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}