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WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that took in first Covid-19 patients

WHO officials at Wuhan hospital

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, arrive to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China’s central Hubei province on January 30, 2021.

Photo credit: Hector Retamal | AFP

What you need to know:

  • The WHO insists the probe will stick tightly to the science behind how the virus jumped from animals -- believed to be bats -- to humans.
  • A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Friday flagged the WHO visit as "a part of global research" into the pandemic.

Wuhan,

The team of World Health Organization experts investigating the origins of the coronavirus met staff Saturday at the Wuhan hospital which received the first confirmed Covid-19 cases, on day two of fieldwork on their highly scrutinised visit to China.