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WHO team investigating origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan

By Associated Press

Jan. 30, 2021

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A journalist wearing a panda themed hat shoots with a camera outside an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus when a World Health Organization team is visiting in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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A man wearing mask stands near barricade after the World Health Organization team arrived at an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday. The words on the wall reads “People First, Life First."
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Security personnel fan out as the World Health Organization team gets ready to leave after attending an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Security personnel fan out as the World Health Organization team gets ready to leave after attending an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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A security officer wearing a mask and a cap with the Chinese national flag guards the entrance after the World Health Organization team arrive at an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Members of the World Health Organization team arrive at an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Members of the World Health Organization team including Ken Maeda, right, Peter Daszak, third from right and Vladmir Dedkov, second from left leave after attending an exhibition about the fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Security personnel clear the way for the convoy of the World Health Organization team as they depart from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital after a field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Members of World Health Organization team depart from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital after a field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Security personnel guard an entrance to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital where a team from the World Health Organization visited in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30.
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Municipal workers leave after disinfecting an entrance of the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital as the World Health Organization team makes a visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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Municipal workers disinfect an entrance of the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital as the World Health Organization team makes a visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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A man and child eat breakfast at a shop across from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital where a team from the World Health Organization visited in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30.
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Security personnel move a barrier to clear the way for the World Health Organization team as they depart from the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital after a field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Jan. 30. The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work on Saturday.
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A car that's part of a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team of researchers arrives at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also known as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Jan. 29. 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.
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Security guards prevent journalists from following after a car that's part of a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team of researchers as they arrive at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also known as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29. 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.
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A man carries a child past the clinic of the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also known as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Jan. 29. A World Health Organization team on Friday visited the hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus.
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A Chinese passes by panels listing the different functions of the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also known as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital as the World Health Organization team makes.a visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, Friday, Jan. 29. 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.
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Dominic Dwyer of the World Health Organization team waves at journalists from a hotel room balcony in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29. 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.
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Chinese medical staff wave farewell to a World Health Organization team during their visit to the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also know as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29. The World Health Organization team on Friday visited the hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus.
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Chinese attendees, some wearing tags which reads "Expert Team," walk to a restaurant after leaving a conference area where World Health Organization team of researchers are meeting their Chinese counterparts in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29. World Health Organization experts are to begin face-to-face meetings with their Chinese counterparts Friday in the central city of Wuhan at the start of the team's long-awaited fact-finding mission into the origins of the coronavirus.
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A cyclist past by the hotel where a team of experts from the World Health Organization are quarantined in Wuhan in centra China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28. A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

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