coronavirus outbreak that sparked a pandemic. Ten scientists from the World Health Organisation (WHO) will travel to the city in January after months of negotiating access with the Chinese government.
There they will try to get to the bottom of what really happened at the end of 2019.It is believed SARS-CoV-2 make the fateful leap from animals to humans for the first time.
While the prevailing theory is that the novel coronavirus originated in a wet market in Wuhan at the end of last year, there have been a number of other theories placing the outbreak elsewhere and earlier.China has also been accused by other nations of covering up the outbreak and underplaying its severity, most notably by the Trump administration in the US.