WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study
By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA, Associated Press
Published: January 28, 2021, 8:29am
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WUHAN, China — A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
The researchers, who were required to isolate for 14 days after arriving in China, left their quarantine hotel with their luggage — including at least four yoga mats — in the midafternoon and headed to another hotel.
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