visited a market in Wuhan on Sunday where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year ago.
But with the fieldwork element of a trip in its early stages, WHO officials have already downplayed expectations of finding the source of a virus which has killed more than 2 million people and devastated the global economy. A plainclothes security personnel uses his umbrella to block journalists from filming after the World Health Organization team arrive at the Baishazhou wholesale market, Jan 31, 2021. Earlier this week, state media outlet Global Times published a report downplaying the importance of Huanan as an early epicentre of the virus, claiming"subsequent investigations" have suggested the market was not the source of the outbreak.