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• Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded. Having spoken with some members of the team.
• Some of that work may lie outside the remit and scope of this mission. We have always said that this mission would not find all the answers.

• More than a million cases are registered every week across the 53 member states in the UN agency's European region, which includes several in central Asia.

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The organistaion has served 340,000 patients till date through the network of its 33 e-health clinics across Pakistan, and the mobile application. “The government of Balochistan appreciates the effort of Sehat Kahani in bringing this much needed innovation to our region; this will help many patients from underserved areas to be able to access quality healthcare."

• Huge global pressure and scrutiny trailed the team during its probe in China, which mission member Peter Daszak described as working "flat out under the most politically charged environment possible."

• Beijing warned Washington not to "politicise" the mission after the White House demanded a "robust" probe.

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• WHO foreign expert said identifying the animal pathway remains a "work in progress", adding the absence of bats in the Wuhan area dimmed the likelihood of direct transmission.

• Speculation emerged early in the pandemic that the virus could have accidentally leaked from the lab in Wuhan, although there was no evidence provided to back up that theory.

• The WHO said the recommendations on who it should and should not be used for would be made public later this week.

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• The roll-out of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine is subject to the vaccine being listed for emergency use by WHO.

• In the Netherlands and Belgium during the first lockdown of 2020, the number of cancers diagnosed dropped by 30-40 percent.

• African leaders are speaking out against hoarding by rich countries at the expense of poorer ones.

• Overall, vaccine confidence is higher than in November, when the same survey - conducted in 15 countries and covering 13,500 people each time - found that only 40% would be willing to get vaccinated.

• A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the centre of some conspiracy theories that claim a laboratory leak caused the city’s first coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019.

• Extremely important meeting today with staff at WIV including Dr Shi Zhengli. Frank, open discussion. Key questions asked & answered.
• Very interesting. Many questions," Thea Fischer, a Danish member of the team, called from her car as it sped away from the lab following Wednesday's visit.

• The convoy of cars drove past security to enter a virology institute shrouded in mist Wednesday morning.

• China has faced criticism at home and abroad for playing down the initial outbreak and concealing information when it first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019.

• The UN agency hit back at critics on Monday, telling a press conference in Geneva, "if you have the answers... please let us know."

• The group of independent experts spent about 4-1/2 hours on its longest site visit since completing two weeks of quarantine on Thursday, and did not speak to waiting journalists.

• No full itinerary for the group's field work has been announced, and journalists covering the tightly controlled visit have been kept at a distance from team members.

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• The emergence of the new variants has further complicated the fight against the coronavirus.

• The mission, delayed by China and weighed down by political baggage, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from animal to human.

• "Important opportunity to talk directly w/ medics who were on the ground at that critical time fighting COVID!", team member Peter Daszak said on Twitter.
• Just back from visit at Jinyintan hospital, that specialised in infectious diseases and was designated for treatment of the first cases in Wuhan. Stories quite similar to what I have heard from our ICU doctors.