{"id":8238,"date":"2021-01-14T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117739\/coronavirus-two-scientists-who-origins-team-test-positive"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:49:57","slug":"coronavirus-two-scientists-on-who-team-barred-from-china-after-testing-positive-for-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/coronavirus-two-scientists-on-who-team-barred-from-china-after-testing-positive-for-antibodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: two scientists on WHO team barred from China after testing positive for antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"Two members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus did not board a flight to China after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies, the UN agency said on Thursday.The two scientists were negative for the standard nucleic acid test used to diagnose active infection, but tested positive for IgM antibodies, which may point to recent infection.China requires passengers flying from Singapore to take a nucleic acid test and an IgM antibody test up to two days\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117739\/coronavirus-two-scientists-who-origins-team-test-positive\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus did not board a flight to China after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies, the UN agency said on Thursday.The two scientists were negative for the standar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}