Coronavirus: WHO, China scientists meet ‘mask-to-mask’
By DW
07 February 2021 |
6:55 pm
The international WHO experts are on a mission to find out about the origins of the coronavirus. While in quarantine in Wuhan, they've had to make do with video calls to their Chinese counterparts.
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