and examining how a virus could survive on, say, the surface of frozen fish, it is playing right into the narrative of the chinese communist party. the government has suggested that potentially that is how the virus entered china in the first place therefore maybe it s not china s fault after all. what s hardly ever mentioned these days in the party s press is the possibility that china s crowded wildlife markets could provide the vehicle for diseases to jump species. yet the huanan market was the second site to be visited today. the who says 70% of early infections were in some way linked to the market where, pre covid, you could buy chipmunks, foxes, raccoons, wild boar, hedgehogs, snakes, rats, crocodiles and badgers. it s highly symbolic that the who has come
therefore maybe it s not china s fault after all. what s hardly ever mentioned these days in the party s press is the possibility that china s crowded wildlife markets could provide the vehicle for diseases to jump species. yet the huanan market was the second site to be visited today. the who says 70% of early infections were in some way linked to the market where, pre covid, you could buy chipmunks, foxes, raccoons, wild boar, hedgehogs, snakes, rats, crocodiles and badgers. it s highly symbolic that the who has come to this market where we saw the first coronavirus clusters. precisely what they hope to gain from this visit we re not sure, because as you can see, we re not able to go in and observe their work. but one thing is for sure, they re not going to tell us in the next couple of weeks whether or not the coronavirus
therefore maybe it s not china s fault after all. what s hardly ever mentioned these days in the party s press is the possibility that china s crowded wildlife markets could provide the vehicle for diseases to jump species. yet the huanan market was the second site to be visited today. the who says 70% of early infections were in some way linked to the market where, pre covid, you could buy chipmunks, foxes, raccoons, wild boar, hedgehogs, snakes, rats, crocodiles and badgers. it s highly symbolic that the who has come to this market where we saw the first coronavirus clusters. precisely what they hope to gain from this visit we re not sure, because as you can see, we re not able to go in and observe their work. but one thing is for sure, they re not going to tell us in the next couple of weeks whether or not the coronavirus
have written a paper tracing the virus back to what they think is the first known patient, the first person they can find to have been infected, back on the 1st of december. you can imagine why they would want to speak to that doctor. and also, the other teams at that hospital who were helping those who were very sick in the highly stressful early days of the outbreak. the next stop was at this exhibition. people might want to know why they would come to an exhibition, it is an exhibition to supposedly dedicated to those who fought against the coronavirus here in wuhan. so, it could be police officers, soldiers, nurses, doctors. even those who built those huge temporary isolation facilities that everyone will remember having seen here in wuhan. it is a bit of a propaganda effort for sure. if you go in there, there are pictures of the chinese
centre in wuhan. our correspondent has been following their progress. the exhibition behind me as one of the two locations that the who investigation team visited today on one of their field trips, the second full day since they completed their quarantine. while their main work here is to review the research already done by chinese scientists, they are able to supplement this with face to face meetings and also visiting locations for some hands on work, if you like. the first place they went to was a hospital. it is one which dealt with many of the early coronavirus cases here in wuhan. a team of doctors there had also written a paper tracing the virus back to what they think is the first known patient, the first person they can find to have been infected, on the 1st of december. you can imagine why they would want