WHO team to start Wuhan virus probe under global glare January 27, 2021 at 09:46PM

The WHO insists the visit will be tightly tethered to the science of how the virus -- which has killed more than two million people and laid waste to the global economy -- jumped from animals to humans. The virus is believed to have come from bats and to have initially spread from a wet market in Wuhan where wild animals were sold as food.