A man and a child use a sled on a frozen lake in Beijing on January 12, 2021. - AFP
BEIJING, Jan 12 (AFP/Reuters): A team of WHO experts will land directly in Wuhan on Thursday, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday, starting their long-delayed probe into Covid-19 at the virus epicentre.
The ten scientists will investigate the origins of the new virus in a politically fraught mission that comes more than a year after the pandemic began and after accusations Beijing has tried to thwart the project.
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