Australia bats for inquiry into spread of coronavirus pandemic

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged members of the World Health Organisation to come together and support an independent inquiry into the origins and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, a call opposed by China; with the virus largely believed to have originated in the city of Wuhan. The pandemic has infected close to 2.6 million people, and has killed 1,80,000 globally, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University