The World Health Organization to send team to China to investigate COVID-19 origin

 

Reuters

The World Health Organization is sending a team to China to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus.

"We can fight the virus better when we know everything about the virus, including how it started," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during Monday's press briefing in Geneva.

 The very first cases of COVID-19 were identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, months before the rapidly spreading outbreak was declared a pandemic.

Tedros said the investigative team will travel there next week.

"We hope that will lead into understanding how the virus started and what we can do for the future to prepare," he added. 

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