A World Health Organization (WHO) panel will recommend a deeper contract tracing of the first COVID-19 patient in Wuhan, China, including a probe on the wildlife market believed to be where the coronavirus originated.
Citing a CNN report, The Hill reported that experts involved in the probe into how the virus originated found it implausible that Chinese officials did not investigate them.
The WHO panel will call on Chinese authorities to further investigate the first known patient s contact history, which was believed to have contracted the virus on Dec. 8, 2019.
Investigators have yet to identify the first COVID-19 patient by name but have said that the patient was a white-collar worker in his 40s and did not have a history of traveling far from home.