WHO team to visit Wuhan to investigate coronavirus outbreak

A team of
World Health Organisation  (WHO) experts
will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus
epidemic, on Saturday to investigate the outbreak of the disease.

The
12-member team, which arrived in China on Monday, was initially designated to
visit only Beijing, Guangdong and Sichuan provinces. The Hubei province and its
provincial capital Wuhan was conspicuously absent from the list. However, the
team was finally given permission to visit Wuhan by the Chinese Government.

Besides
controlling the spread of the virus, a major task of the WHO team along with
their Chinese counterparts is to come up with standard medicine to cure the disease.

The
country’s health officials said the death toll in China due to Coronavirus has
reached 2,236 while the overall confirmed infection cases have climbed to
75,567.