China rebuffs WHO claims over coronavirus mission
By DW
07 January 2021 |
7:00 am
The WHO had said that two of their experts had been denied entry to China. Now Beijing has hit back; claiming details of the COVID-19 fact-finding mission were still being finalized.
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