(HealthDay)—The World Health Organization will lead an international investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China.
Two WHO experts—one in animal health and another in epidemiology—were to arrive in Beijing on Friday and will meet with Chinese officials to make preparations for the mission, the Associated Press reported. A key part of the investigation will be to “look at whether or not it jumped from species to human, and what species it jumped from,” according to WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris, M.D. It is believed that the new coronavirus may have originated in bats and was transmitted to another mammal before infecting humans.
Meanwhile, the WHO acknowledged on Thursday that the new coronavirus can linger in small airborne droplets indoors, after being urged to do so by hundreds of experts.
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