Updated Jan 15, 2021 | 13:57 IST
A general consensus has been established in that, while the Huanan seafood market may have been a super-spreader location, it is almost certainly not where the virus originated.
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Although this is the first time that WHO scientists will sit across the table from their Chinese peers, this is not to say that the world's premier medical body has not been in constant contact with them
Researchers are also nearly certain that the virus was a 'natural event' with the outbreak a result of zoonotic spillover
The WHO researchers will be hoping to gain access to the bloodwork conducted by China's scientists, to trace SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence and establish a timeline of the outbreak