ANALYSIS: WHO's COVID-19 sleuths are heading to China, but is it too late to solve the pandemic's mysteries?
This week the World Health Organization is sending in a team to China to investigate the origins of coronavirus, posing an unusual challenge to Beijing's efforts to suggest COVID-19 came from abroad.Both sides confirmed the trip last week. But the WHO could not provide the ABC with any details, and China's Foreign Ministry has not outlined any plans either.
The imminent arrival of the investigators also presents a fresh problem for China's Government: more questions over how coronavirus emerged. So they scrapped the salmon theory and determined human to human transmission was the likely culprit, with the strain identified as coming from Europe rather than the one that ravaged Wuhan.
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