China: WHO experts coming Thursday for virus origins probe

Web Desk 2021-01-10 BEIJING (AP) - China has announced that a group of experts from the World Health Organization are expected to arrive on Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. A one-sentence announcement from the National Health Commission on Monday said experts would meet with their Chinese counterparts but gave no further details. It was not immediately clear whether they would travel to the city of Wuhan in central China, where the coronavirus was first detected in late 2019. Negotiations for the visit have been ongoing for a long time, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…