WHO investigation into Covid-19 origins ---------------------------------------------- A World Health Organisation-sponsored probe into the source of the coronavirus has been given full access to key sites and personnel in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Cvvid-19 was first detected in late 2019 ---------------------------------------------- 5km 3 miles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 WUHAN Yangtze River Hanyang District Hankou District Wuchang District Donghu Lake ---------------------------------------------- 1,000km 625 miles Beijing CHINA Wuhan ---------------------------------------------- LOCATIONS VISITED BY WHO INVESTIGATION TEAM Jan 14, 2021: Team of 13 WHO experts required to isolate for 14 days upon arriving in Wuhan 1 Jan 30: Visit to Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine – treated some of first known Covid-19 cases 2 Jan 30: Jinyintan Hospital – received large numbers of severe Covid-19 cases in early days of outbreak 3 Jan 31: Baishazhou market – one of Wuhan’s largest food wholesale markets 4 Jan 31: Huanan seafood market – site linked to early cluster of Covid-19 cases 5 Feb 1: Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Hubei Provincial CDC 6 Feb 2: Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Centre 7 Feb 3: Wuhan Institute of Virology – members of WHO team have refuted speculation that virus leaked from laboratory studying bat-borne coronaviruses ---------------------------------------------- Sources: Associated Press, Bloomberg, Google Maps, Reuters © GRAPHIC NEWS