The World Health Organisation will travel to China this weekend to investigate the origins of coronavirus. 9News
"A scoping mission to China is set for ideally this weekend, but logistics we have to make sure we can actually organise it, but we will have an animal health expert and epidemiologist going," Dr Harris said.
"There will also be the work on the wider enquiry that Australia led the request for, that also will be going on." WHO officials say it is vital to understand how the virus passed from wild animals to farm livestock and then to humans.
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