A blocked entrance to Huanan seafood market, where the coronavirus that can causes COVID-19 is believed to have first surfaced, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on Sep 2, 2020. GENEVA: The World Health Organization has had assurances from China that an international field trip to investigate the origins of the new coronavirus will be arranged as soon as possible, its top emergency expert said on Monday .
The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December, prompting US President Donald Trump to label it the"China plague" and accuse the WHO of being soft on Beijing. This would help to ensure"that the international community can be reassured of the quality of the science", he said.Wuhan market is"likely to have been a point of amplification" of virus transmission, but whether that was by human, animal or environmental spread is not yet known, he said, adding that there had been human cases that preceded that event.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other senior officials briefed WHO's 194 member states last week on progress in the probe, mandated by health ministers last May.
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