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, 2021. (AP)
- Their first in-person meetings should be followed by the first field visits in and around the industrial and transport hub
WUHAN, China: World Health Organization experts in Wuhan, China, to look into the origins of the new coronavirus met with their Chinese counterparts Friday and plan later to visit sites in the central city that will be key to their long-awaited fact-finding mission.
“First face to face meeting with our colleagues. Correction: facemask to facemask given the medical restrictions,” Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans tweeted around 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT).
“Discussing our visiting program. China teamleader prof Wannian joking about some technical glitches. Nice to see our colleagues after lengthy Zoom meetings,” Koopman tweeted, referring apparently to top Chinese epidemiologist Liang Wannian, who has been a leader of China’s response team.