WHO tackles new strains as China logs first Covid death in 8 months


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Listen | Print By Nina LARSON, AFP Bureaus (AFP) 22 mins ago in World Global health experts gather on Thursday to tackle new strains of the coronavirus blamed for a fresh surge in infections after China recorded its first Covid-19 death in eight months. The World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee session comes with their colleagues seeking the origins of the virus on a long-delayed mission to the pandemic ground zero in Wuhan. Almost two million of the more than 91 million people who have caught the disease have died, but the figures are widely believed to be an underestimate....