{"id":79005,"date":"2021-02-14T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=174901"},"modified":"2021-02-14T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:59:06","slug":"virus-may-not-stem-from-china-who-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/02\/14\/virus-may-not-stem-from-china-who-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus may not stem from China: WHO expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The virus that causes COVID-19 may not have emerged in China, a World Health Organisation scientist has suggested. Professor John Watson, who was part of the WHO team that travelled to China to investigate the origins of the pandemic, said the virus&#8217;s leap from animals to humans may have occurred outside the country&#8217;s borders.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\" title=\"ChinaPulse.com provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in China\" >ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virus that causes COVID-19 may not have emerged in China, a World Health Organisation scientist has suggested. Professor John Watson, who was part of the WHO team that travelled to China to investigate the origins of the pandemic, said the virus&amp;#8&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,213,288,194,334,121],"tags":[3472,10323,10324,2172,10328,3402,10336],"class_list":["post-79005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-china-news","category-medicine","category-news-chinese-law","category-university","category-wuhan","tag-chinese","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-national-security","tag-pandemic","tag-united-kingdom","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79006,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79005\/revisions\/79006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}