WHO team visits second Wuhan hospital that had early Covid-19 patients

Security personnel guard an entrance to the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital where a team from the World Health Organisation visited (Ng Han Guan/AP)

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic have visited a second Wuhan hospital that had treated early Covid-19 patients.

Jinyantan Hospital was one of the city’s first to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a then-unknown virus and is a key part of the epidemiological history of the disease.