Virus origin probe set to begin as China and US trade barbs

Wuhan, China (AFP) Jan 28, 2021

World Health Organization experts emerged from quarantine in China on Thursday to begin a long-awaited inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, with the United States and Beijing sparring over the nature of the probe. The investigators are in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus emerged more than a year ago before going on to infect more than 100 million and kill more than tw