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WHO Covid-19 mission delay not just visa issue: China
AFP
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World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopian Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Credit: AFP Photo
World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopian Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Credit: AFP Photo

Delays to a long-planned mission by WHO experts to China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic are "not just a visa issue", Beijing said Wednesday.

But talks were continuing over "the specific date and specific arrangement of the expert group's visit", foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters of the highly sensitive mission.

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(Published 06 January 2021, 14:43 IST)