WHO team visits Wuhan research lab at centre of coronavirus speculation

A security guard moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organisation team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan on Wednesday (Ng Han Guan/AP)

World Health Organisation (WHO) investigators have visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

The WHO team’s Wednesday visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a highlight of their mission to gather data and search for clues as to where the virus originated and how it spread.