The @WHO investigation team is today visiting two centres for disease control in #Wuhan. They’re currently at the provincial level facility. The second is city level. Both places have labs in them for studying viruses etc but they’re not the top level (most dangerous). #China
This is probably the most relevant place the @WHO team has visited so far. They can speak to serious people with actual data etc. They’ve been inside for over 3 and a half hours. #China #coronavirus
@WHO team leaves. On the left hand side you’ll see some argy bargy with security as a cameraman tries to film comments from one of the scientists who had his window down. Apparently he said it was a good meeting. #China #coronavirus
The team is in between CDC lab visits. Time to squeeze in some local re gan mian 热干面 noodles. At 5 kuai a bowl what a bargain! Yeah #Wuhan! #China
Next stop for the @WHO #coronavirus investigation team today will be #Wuhan City’s Centre for Diseases Control. It has a lab inside and is only hundreds of metres from the Huanan livestock market which had the early virus infection clusters, hence questions about possible leak?
When the @WHO scientists visited the earlier disease control centre they saw labs, including the bsl-3, and asked about #Wuhan’s early responses, including identification of cases, testing, the means of infection and any common links between virus patients. #China #coronavirus
Great shot of the @WHO team inside the Huanan market from Kyoto’s @HATTAnao... https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/01/5008dafe61a7-who-team-visits-wuhan-market-where-coronavirus-spotted-in-early-stage.html
How close is #Wuhan’s Centre for Disease Control (with it’s infectious diseases lab) to the Huanan livestock market which was linked to the world’s first-known #coronavirus infection clusters? This close...