• Medical staff members bring a patient to a Wuhan hospital in January last year. Seemingly worried about drawing renewed attention to the country’s early mistakes in handling the pandemic, Chinese officials have used a variety of tactics over the past year to hinder the WHO investigation into the origins of COVID-19. | AFP-JIJI
    Medical staff members bring a patient to a Wuhan hospital in January last year. Seemingly worried about drawing renewed attention to the country’s early mistakes in handling the pandemic, Chinese officials have used a variety of tactics over the past year to hinder the WHO investigation into the origins of COVID-19. | AFP-JIJI
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More than a year after a new coronavirus emerged in China, a team of experts from the World Health Organization finally arrived Thursday in the central city of Wuhan to begin hunting for its source, Chinese state media reported.

The investigation by the team of 10 scientists is a critical step in understanding how the virus jumped to humans from animals so that another pandemic can be avoided. Getting answers will most likely be difficult.

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