Wuhan Institute of Virology

Peter Ben Embarek, and other members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), arrive at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song
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WHO team probing Covid-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'

Wuhan Institute of Virology staff Dr Shi Zhengli earning her the nickname “Bat Woman” - was among the first last year to isolate the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19

Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), attends the WHO-China joint study news conference at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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The WHO's theories about the origins of Covid-19 after Wuhan probe

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Center in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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WHO-led Covid-19 probe team in China visits animal health facility

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, leave an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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WHO team visits Wuhan market where first Covid infections detected

Members of the World Health Organization team chat on a hotel room balcony in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. 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. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that took in first Covid-19 patients

Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state media
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Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state media

FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the State Department in Washington, US, March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Pompeo presses China to allow lab inspections amid pandemic

Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: Collected
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Director of Wuhan lab denies virus link