WHO to visit Wuhan in coronavirus investigation
The World Health Organization confirmed their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus will include a visit in Wuhan, China.
China has accused Boris Johnson of engaging in "groundless conjecture" after he suggested that coronavirus could have spread from people grinding up the scales of pangolins.
The prime minister speculated about the origin of COVID-19 during a speech to an environmental summit on Monday.
He said it was "the product of an imbalance in man's relationship with the natural world".
The PM continued: "Like the original plague which struck the Greeks I seem to remember in book one of the Iliad, it is a zoonotic disease.
"It originates from bats or pangolins, from the demented belief that if you grind up the scales of a pangolin you will somehow become more potent or whatever it is people believe, it originates from this collision between mankind and the natural world and we've got to stop it."
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But Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said "careful and meticulous" studies were needed to discover the origin of the coronavirus outbreak.
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