WHO team to go to china in january for COVID-19 origin probe.
                     WHO’S TEAM 
TO GO TO 
CHINA IN 
JANUARY FOR 
COVID-19 
ORIGIN PROBE
INTRODUCTION
• In January, the World Health Organization's international team pursuing 
investigations into the sources of the Covid-19 virus will travel to China, the 
global health agency reported on Wednesday.
Source: www.tribuneindia.com
COVID-19 ORIGIN PROBE
• WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson told AFP when asked about news that 
next month the expert team, which comprises epidemiologists and experts in 
animal health, will eventually head to China.
Source: www.financialtimes.com
SOURCES OF THE VIRUS
• Scientists and medical analysts have repeated the global call to explore the 
sources of the virus, suspected of being in China's Wuhan, as the plague of 
coronavirus disease has destroyed millions of lives and upended economies 
worldwide.
Source: www.dtnext.com
FIRST APPEARANCE OF CORONA 
VIRUS
• Before spreading through China and sparking a global pandemic, the 
coronavirus first appeared in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 
2019.
Source: www.abc.com
CHINA REJECTED THE CLAIM
• For almost a year now, China has dismissed allegations surrounding evidence of viruses 
arising in its central region. 
• Recently, it has been labelled "pure propaganda" by a top German biochemist cited by 
Chinese state media as claiming that the coronavirus did not emerge in Wuhan, saying 
that there is no reason to indicate that the virus did not come from the central Chinese 
region.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
REGULATION IN CHINA
• China has successfully regulated the spread of Covid-19 within its boundaries a year 
after the Coronavirus pandemic, putting in place successful lock down and contract 
monitoring mechanisms and doing mass surveillance for the virus for any minor 
outbreak. 
Source: www.science.com
VIRUS ORIGIN THEORY
• Around the same time in the face of global scrutiny, Beijing has been seeking to change 
the hypothesis of virus origin and move the burden outward. 
• The root may be the Indian subcontinent, like India and Bangladesh or Saudi Arabia, 
Italy, the US and the US military, or smuggled frozen packaged foods, and other 
hypotheses are in circulation.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
WHO TO VISIT CHINA
• In August of this year, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, president of the Organization and 
WHO Director-General, said that the international team will deploy to Wuhan, the city 
where the pandemic is suspected to have exploded late last year. 
• The terms of reference were drawn up by WHO and China, Tedros said but he did not 
explain.
Source: www.indianexpress.com
SAMPLE COLLECTION
• Now a team of 12-15 foreign experts is eventually planning to go to Wuhan to review 
evidence and draw on their initial findings, including human and animal samples 
obtained by Chinese researchers.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
A YEAR INTO CORONAVIRUS 
PANDEMIC
• The topic of where the virus came from and how it first crossed over to humans remains 
a mystery one year after the latest coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 
1.6 million people and affected over 73 million worldwide.
Source: www.cio.com