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WHO Team Visits Chinese Virus Lab in Wuhan

Agence France-Presse

   WUHAN, CHINA - World Health Organization inspectors visited a
   laboratory in China's Wuhan city on Wednesday that American officials
   suggested could have been the source of the coronavirus.

   The inspection of the Wuhan virology institute, which conducts research
   on the world's most dangerous diseases, will be one of the most-watched
   stops on the team's probe into the origins of theCOVID-19 pandemic.

   The sensitive mission, which China had delayed throughout the first
   year of the pandemic, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from
   animal to human.

   But questions remain over what the experts can hope to find after so
   much time has passed.

   The convoy of cars drove past security to enter a virology institute
   shrouded in mist Wednesday morning, with the first car pausing briefly
   to take questions from journalists.

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