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In hunt for virus source, WHO let China take charge

By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo, Amy Qin and Javier C. Hernández
New York Times·
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As it praised Beijing, the World Health Organisation concealed concessions to China and may have sacrificed the best chance to unravel the virus's origins. Now it's a favourite Trump attack line.

On a cold weekend in mid-February, when the world still harboured false hope that the new coronavirus could be contained, a World Health Organisation team arrived in Beijing to study the outbreak and investigate a critical question: How did the virus jump from animals to humans?

At that point,

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