They expect to stay for a month but will start work immediately during their two-week quarantine, according to the WHO.
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They will head straight to hotel quarantine for two weeks.
During that time, they’ll be continuing their work, holding more of the video calls with Chinese counterparts that they’ve already been doing from abroad.
The team then has roughly two weeks in Wuhan to visit hospitals, labs, wet markets and other relevant places before the trip is expected to wrap up ahead of Chinese New Year.
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