Mary Wilson
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Simone McCarthy
Published: 4:07pm, 30 Jun, 2020
As the world marks the grim six-month milestone since Beijing confirmed the existence of
the new coronavirus
, the World Health Organisation announced it would send a team into China to investigate the source of the pathogen, which has now killed more than half a million people.
“We can fight the virus better when we know everything about the virus, including how it started,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday in Geneva. “We will be sending a team next week to China to prepare for that.”
The announcement comes six months after China first notified the WHO of an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia linked to a fresh food market in the central city of Wuhan, a disease later named Covid-19.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/art...eek-source-new-coronavirus?utm_source=Twitter
Published: 4:07pm, 30 Jun, 2020
As the world marks the grim six-month milestone since Beijing confirmed the existence of
the new coronavirus
, the World Health Organisation announced it would send a team into China to investigate the source of the pathogen, which has now killed more than half a million people.
“We can fight the virus better when we know everything about the virus, including how it started,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday in Geneva. “We will be sending a team next week to China to prepare for that.”
The announcement comes six months after China first notified the WHO of an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia linked to a fresh food market in the central city of Wuhan, a disease later named Covid-19.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/art...eek-source-new-coronavirus?utm_source=Twitter
