{"id":5087,"date":"2021-01-11T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2021-01-11T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:00:29","slug":"china-says-who-coronavirus-experts-to-visit-from-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=5087","title":{"rendered":"China says WHO coronavirus experts to visit from Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEIJING &#8211;<\/strong> Ten World Health Organization scientists will visit China from Thursday to probe the origins of Covid-19, authorities said Monday, more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations Beijing has tried to thwart the investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The long-awaited mission is of great political significance at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the world, caused almost two million deaths, and brought the global economy to a virtual standstill. The WHO team &#8220;will conduct joint research cooperation on the origins of Covid-19 with Chinese scientists&#8221;, the National Health Commission said in a statement that provided no further details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A last-minute delay to the mission earlier this month earned China a rare rebuke from the head of the WHO.Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; China had not authorised the team&#8217;s entry &#8212; especially as two members were already en route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing sought to downplay the tension, however, with foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying calling it a &#8220;misunderstanding&#8221;.\u00a0 The WHO experts will have to quarantine for two weeks on arrival, but are expected later to visit Wuhan &#8212; the city where the deadly virus was first detected in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; Virus origins &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe US and Australia have led international calls for an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus, putting China under significant pressure amid growing calls for accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing has faced international criticism over its lack of transparency during the initial outbreak, although domestically the government has praised its own handling of the outbreak and stifled any criticism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government officials have repeatedly said that tracing the origins of the pandemic was a &#8220;scientific matter&#8221;, and has even pushed theories it originated outside China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experts say solving the mystery of how it first jumped from animals to humans is crucial to preventing another pandemic, but China&#8217;s tight control of its scientific research leaves little hope of finding definitive conclusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is little dispute that the virus emerged in late 2019 at a wet market in Wuhan where wildlife was sold as food, and the pathogen is believed to have originated in an undetermined bat species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quest to detect its origins has also been plagued by conspiracy theories -amplified by US President Donald Trump -that it leaked from a Wuhan virology l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8211; Ten World Health Organization scientists will visit China from Thursday to probe the origins of Covid-19, authorities said Monday, more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations Beijing has tried to thwart the investigation. 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