Scientists probing the origins of the coronavirus are wrapping up a lengthy investigation in China and have found “important clues” about a Wuhan seafood market’s role in the outbreak.
Peter Daszak, a New York-based zoologist assisting the World Health Organisation-sponsored mission, said he anticipates the main findings will be released before his planned February 10 departure.
Speaking from the central city of Wuhan, where COVID-19 mushroomed in December 2019, Daszak said the 14-member group worked with experts in China and visited key hot spots and research centres to uncover “some real clues about what happened.”
No new cases in Western Australia, border measures with Victoria to remain
There have been no new cases of coronavirus recorded in Western Australia overnight, Premier Mark McGowan announced on Sunday.
Mr McGowan said 5264 tests returned no evidence of community spread a week to the day a security guard at a Perth quarantine hotel tested positive to COVID-19, plunging WA into a five-day snap lockdown.