The shopping area of Wuhan being disinfected in February, 2020 (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP). Billy Foley
Billy Foley
54 Days: China and the Pandemic, BBC 2, Tuesday
A team of scientists from the World Health Organisation is in China today one year after the emergence of Covid-19.
Their mission: to determine where the coronavirus came from and how it was transferred into humans.
It's a scientific endeavour on behalf of humankind but it is also deeply political as it falls squarely into the battle for supremacy between the world's two great powers – China and the US.
Undoubtedly China has been less than transparent about the origins of the virus and stands accused of failing to share information in the early months which might have helped the international community prevent its worldwide spread and the deaths of two million people.