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Sun rises in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected, a year after China confirming its first death from the virus. Nearly two million deaths later, the pandemic is out of control across much of the world, leaving tens of millions ill, a pulverised global economy and recriminations flying between nations. IMAGES
WHO expert Peter Ben Embarek arrives at Wuhan airport at the end of the organisation's mission. The probe concluded without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed more than 2.3 million worldwide. IMAGES
Two WHO experts, Marion Koopmans and Peter Daszak, leave their hotel at the end of the organisation's mission to Wuhan. The probe concluded without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed more than 2.3 million worldwide. IMAGES
Experts from the WHO all but eliminate a controversial theory that Covid-19 came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "The laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population," says Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the WHO mission. "Therefore is not in the hypotheses that we will suggest for future studies." IMAGES
The WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the animal source, but said there was no indication the sickness was in circulation in Wuhan before December 2019 when the first official cases were recorded. WHO foreign expert Ben Embarek, who was based in the WHO's Beijing office for two years from 2009, backs up the Chinese side's assertion saying there was no evidence of "large outbreaks in Wuhan" before then. SOUNDBITE
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