China has recorded its first Covid-19 death in eight months, as experts gathered to discuss worrying new strains of the coronavirus that are spreading rapidly around the globe.
The meeting in Geneva of the World Health Organization's emergency committee comes as their colleagues landed in Wuhan for a long-delayed mission to find the origins of the virus.
More than 91 million people have been infected, with almost two million of them dying, according to figures widely thought to be an underestimate.
China - where the virus first emerged - has again locked down millions of people as it fights to control a fresh outbreak. The death comes as a politically sensitive investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic finally got under way