HEALTH

                The race is on to find out how the deadly Coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, Helen Briggs looks at how scientists are trying to trace the source of the outbreak. Somewhere in China, a bat flits across the sky, leaving a trace of Coronavirus in its droppings, which fall to the forest floor. A wild animal, possibly a pangolin snuffling for insects among the leaves, picks up the infection from excrement, the novel Covid-19 circulates in wildlife, eventually an infected animal is captured and a person somehow catches the disease, then passes it on to workers at a wildlife market. A global outbreak is born, scientists are attempting to prove the truth of this scenario as they work to find wild animals harboring the Coronavirus. Finding the sequence of events is a bit of a detective story , says Prof Andrew Cunningham of Zoological Society London ZSL, A range of wild animal species could be the host, in particular bats which...

                There's one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge and experience with Coronavirus, CHINA and specifically Hubei province, is where the COVID-19 disease emerged, it's where 83% of the 284,814 cases known to date have been recorded and it's where doctors and health authorities have been battling an epidemic for more than three months using unprecedented public health measures, including a cordon sanitaire and lock downs that affected millions. In recent weeks, though, the number of new infections and deaths reported in china has been declining, which suggests spread of the virus may have peaked there and that transmission is slowing down, at the same time cases are rapidly increasing in several other countries, with major outbreaks in Italy, Spain, South Korea and Iran, it's now critical that the rest of the world learn as much as it can from China's efforts to respond and limit the spread of the Coronavirus...