The World Health Organisation’s top emergency expert said on Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the Coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first identified in a food market in December last year.

Various outlets of the state-run Chinese media have been carrying reports in recent days stating that a number of imported food products from different countries, including a consignment of fish from India, were found to have traces of the COVID-19 alleging that the virus may have entered China through foreign routes.