WHO experts to go to China to identify virus' zoonotic source


WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. - Reuters

GENEVA (Xinhua): Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are going to China this weekend to prepare for an international mission later to identify the zoonotic source of Covid-19, the WHO chief said Tuesday (July 7).

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at Tuesday's virtual media briefing that "all preparations have been finalised and WHO experts will be travelling to China this weekend to prepare scientific plans with their Chinese counterparts for identifying the zoonotic source of the disease."

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