Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters
Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters
Josephine Ma
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As I see it by Josephine Ma

Coronavirus inquiry a chance for China and the WHO to polish their reputations

  • How much information the Covid-19 investigation can gather depends on what and how much material is provided by China
  • Beijing says the visit is an ‘exchange between scientists’

Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma

Updated: 11:42pm, 2 Feb, 2021

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Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters
Members of the WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease visit the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Tuesday, February 2. Photo: Reuters
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Josephine Ma

Josephine Ma

Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. She has a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in English language from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.