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WHO expert Peter Ben Embarek arrives at Wuhan airport at the end of the organisation's mission. The probe concluded without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed more than 2.3 million worldwide. IMAGES
Experts from the WHO all but eliminate a controversial theory that Covid-19 came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "The laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population," says Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the WHO mission. "Therefore is not in the hypotheses that we will suggest for future studies." IMAGES
A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 arrives at a market in Wuhan where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year ago. IMAGES
Images outside a hotel in Wuhan where a World Health Organization team is under quarantine. The WHO experts arrived in Wuhan on January 14 and are due to emerge from a 14-day quarantine Thursday. They are in the city to investigate the coronavirus pandemic's origins. IMAGES
"I’m happy that me and my team, we are all safe": Leo Ralirez, a video journalist from Agence France-Presse, describes his emotions after being repatriated to France from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of a conronavirus outbreak. He and some 200 other French nationals are transported to a holiday camp at Carry-le-Rouet on the southern coast, where they are quarantined for two weeks. SOUNDBITE