Guess WHO will be collaborating with the covid19 investigation? Wuhan Institute of Virology of course!

London: The head of the World Health Organisation says the team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic will travel to Wuhan, the stated epicentre of the disease's outbreak, after it was reported two investigators travelled only to Beijing.

Dr Tedros told a news conference in Geneva that the two-person team sent to Beijing was only a preliminary one that was drawing up the terms of reference and conditions of access with Chinese officials.

"It was not their intention to start the study and they had no plans to travel to Wuhan," he said.

"When then the group of international experts are put together then of course naturally they will travel to Wuhan to start the study because it's the basics of inquiries like this to start their study from where the first report came.

Dr Mike Ryan, the director of WHO's emergencies program said part of the preliminary mission the WHO officials did speak to workers at the Institute of Virology via video conference.

"We fully expect as part of any normal mission to Wuhan, that the local epidemiological, laboratory, clinicians would be fully engaged in the response," he said.

"And we would expect as part of it to engage our scientific colleagues and collaborators at the Institute of Virology."


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