A team of ten scientists from the World Health Organisation [W-H-O] have arrived in Wuhan, China which was the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The experts will now have to undergo fourteen days of isolation before they can start investigating the origins of the coronavirus.
The group includes zoologists, respiratory and infectious diseases experts.
Dr Peter Ben Embarek, a W-H-O scientist told Al Jazeera they will be investigating how the virus spread in the city.
"We'll be looking in more detail the initial cases, the human cases that were detected on December 19, looking at the markets the famous Wuhan markets and see what happened there."
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