The World Health Organization (WHO) says its experts will travel to China to work with their Chinese counterparts.
That’s to prepare a study on the origins of the coronavirus and how it was passed from animals to humans.
The global health organisation says identifying the origin of emerging viral disease has proven complex in past epidemics in different countries.
It says a well-planned series of scientific researches will advance the understanding of animal reservoirs and the route of transmission to humans.
Head of the WHO’s emergencies programme, Dr Mike Ryan, said the best place to start was where the disease emerged in humans first, and where the first clusters of atypical pneumonia occurred.
The virus was first discovered in China in December 2019.
The first people who were hospitalised had been through a market located in Wuhan, which was the epicenter of the virus.
