WHO-led team in China will start meetings online from quarantine, East Asia


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WUHAN/SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - A World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of Covid-19 are to begin virtual meetings with their Chinese hosts from a hotel in China's Wuhan, where the pandemic first emerged, on Friday (Jan 15). Their arrival at the city in central China on Thursday was disrupted by the absence of two members who failed coronavirus antibody tests while in transit in Singapore. "Team now undergoing the mandatory 14 days quarantine and being treated very well by our hosts. Work begins today, day 1, in (teleconference meetings with) China team," tweeted team member Peter Daszak, a zoologist. The...