The World Health Organization has unveiled the names of 10 scientists set to travel to Wuhan “as soon as possible” to trace the origins of Sars-Cov-2.
The international team, which includes England's former deputy chief medical officer, John Watson, will work with Chinese experts to investigate how Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans.
Since the virus first emerged experts have been keen to track its origins, with the WHO identifying this a “priority research area” in February and sending a preliminary “scouting mission” to China over the summer, though this team didn't visit Wuhan.
The scientists will also consider theories swirling round the Wuhan Virology Institute, a high security lab in Wuhan, in an attempt to discredit them. And they will interrogate evidence collected by Chinese experts on the ground over the last 11 months.
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