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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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Members from the World Health Organization team of experts prepare to leave on a bus after ending their quarantine at a hotel in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.
Members from the World Health Organization team of experts prepare to leave on a bus after ending their quarantine at a hotel in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Photo Gallery

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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