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Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, leave an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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WHO report says animals likely source of Covid

The findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered. The team proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis

Peter Ben Embarek, and other members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), arrive at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song
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WHO team probing Covid-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, leave an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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WHO team finds possible signs of wider Covid outbreak in Wuhan: Report

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, leave an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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US, WHO push China for data from early days of contagion

Peter Ben Embarek, and other members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), arrive at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song
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China fires back at Washington after it raises concerns about WHO COVID report

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, leave an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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WHO team visits Wuhan market where first Covid infections detected

Members of the World Health Organization team chat on a hotel room balcony in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to start searching for clues into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that took in first Covid-19 patients

In this Jan. 27, 2020, file photo, workers in protective gear carry a bag containing a giant salamander that was reported to have escaped from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. A 10-member team of international researchers from the World Health Organization hopes to find clues as to the origin of the coronavirus pandemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected in late 2019. (Chinatopix via AP, File)
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What WHO researchers in Wuhan are trying to learn

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Coronavirus: Wuhan doctors celebrate closure of last temporary hospital

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China allows non-residents of Wuhan to leave virus centre

Workers labour at the construction site of the new Huoshenshan Hospital, a makeshift hospital for treating patients of the new coronavirus, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 30, 2020. Picture taken January 30, 2020/ China Daily via Reuters
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China's virus-stricken Wuhan converts buildings into hospitals

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Panic sets in as Wuhan runs low on food, hospitals overflow and foreigners evacuate

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Wuhan: A central Chinese hub for transport and industry