China says WHO team to arrive on Thursday

1 of 1 5370537724001 A World Health Organisation team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will arrive in China on January 14, Chinese authorities say. Lack of authorisation from officials in Beijing had delayed the arrival of the 10-strong team on a long-awaited mission to investigate early infections, in what China’s foreign ministry called a “misunderstanding”. The National Health Commission, which announced the arrival date, delayed from its early January schedule, did not detail the team’s itinerary. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the news and said that studies would begin in the central…