{"id":106186,"date":"2021-02-03T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106186"},"modified":"2021-02-03T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:23:16","slug":"who-team-investigating-covid-in-china-visits-virus-research-lab-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/who-team-investigating-covid-in-china-visits-virus-research-lab-in-wuhan\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO team investigating Covid in China visits virus research lab in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organization visited on Wednesday a major virus research laboratory in China&#x27;s central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The team, led by WHO virus expert Peter Ben Embarek, arrived at the heavily guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology at about 9:30 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>The institute has been at the center of a number of conspiracy theories that claim a laboratory leak caused the city&#x27;s first coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organization visited on Wednesday a major virus research laboratory in China&#x27;s central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19<br \/>pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Driving through thick morning mist, the team, led by WHO virus expert Peter Ben Embarek, arrived at the heavily guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology at about 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am looking forward to a very productive day, meeting the key people here and asking all the important questions that need to be asked,&quot; team member Peter Daszak, who is the president of the EcoHealth Alliance, said from his car as it drove in.<\/p>\n<p>The institute has been at the center of a number of conspiracy theories that claim a laboratory leak caused the city&#x27;s first coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Most scientists reject the hypothesis, but some speculate that a virus captured from the wild could have figured in experiments at the lab to test the risks of a human spillover and then escaped via an infected staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Some scientists have called for China to release details of all coronavirus samples studied at the lab, to see which most closely resembles SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the respiratory disease.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/03\/who-team-probing-covid-in-china-visits-virus-research-lab-in-wuhan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organization visited on Wednesday a major virus research laboratory in China&#x27;s central city of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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