WHO Team To Investigate Coronavirus Origins In China

WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told ANI that a WHO team will be visiting China to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. "What is needed now is a good investigation going back before December to find out where and how it jumped from animal to human. Was there any intermediate animal or not or it directly jumped from bat to humans which are also possible? Bats have been implicated in other viral diseases -- Nipah for example. It is possible it came directly. It is also possible that there was an intermediate animal-like in the case of SARS. That thorough investigation still needs to be done," Dr Swaminathan said.