The WHO expert team in Wuhan continues to visit various locations in the region under strict control of the Chinese Communist Party. Over the past few days, the team has visited the South China Seafood Market, once named by the Chinese as the origin of the virus, the Jinyintan Hospital, where confirmed patients were treated at the beginning of the outbreak, and the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, which is suspected to be the source of the virus.
One of the members of the expert group, zoology and animal disease experts Daszak (Peter Daszak) said in an interview with Reuters that the group has been receiving new information about the virus, he did not elaborate on what this information is, but said it should be traced to other parts of China or Southeast Asia bat caves, study how the virus into Wuhan, back to the animal hosts, to find the origin of the virus.
Dasak was involved in a study of the source of SARS in 2003, and found the source of the disease in a cave in Yunnan Province, China, from bats.
He also said he did not think the virus was leaked from the laboratory.
Members of the team were also quoted by the media as saying that they faced more constraints than ever before in their operations in mainland China, and that questions asked by the team when talking to locals needed to be emailed to Communist Party officials two days in advance for approval.
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