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Two members were already on their way to that country, but one of them returned, while the other member is in transit in a third country. The WHO said that there was a problem with visas.
Beijing and the WHO, after months of negotiations, agreed on a long-awaited investigation in December.

The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is "very disappointed" China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus.

The head of the World Health Organization said on Jan. 5 that he is "disappointed" Chinese officials haven't finalized the permissions to allow a team of experts into China to examine the origins of COVID-19.

From Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Acropolis, fireworks burst in skies above eerily deserted landmarks as the world ushered in the New Year with muted celebrations and said good riddance to a pandemic-ridden 2020.

A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said on Dec. 28, almost a year after details of an "unknown viral pneumonia" surfaced in the central China city.

Almost no place has been spared — and no one.

The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. More than any event in memory, the pandemic has been a global event. On every continent, households have felt its devastation — joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death. And an abiding, relentless fear.

A World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to arrive in Wuhan next month to investigate how the novel coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, and whether it emerged earlier or in a different place than originally thought.

Over 75 per cent of people in Western Balkan countries believe many or some of the popular conspiracy theories about COVID-19, the latest survey by the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group, BiEPAG, shows.

Global Times says coronavirus was imported into the Wuhan wet market from Australian beef steak and meat from Brazil and Germany.

According to the American Center, American doctors officially diagnosed the first COVID-19 case in one patient in January 2020, on the basis of which it was concluded that the virus was most likely already circulating in America.