Violent winds of more than 260 kilometres per hour (160 miles per hour) blasted the central city of Wuhan on Friday night

People look at damaged vehicles and structures at a construction site after a tornado hit an economic zone in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 15.

Two tornadoes strike China, killing at least 12

Experts believe the disease originated in bats and could have been transmitted to humans via another mammal

While transmission from animals was the likely route, so far "the reservoir hosts remain to be identified"

WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus

The inspection of the Wuhan virology institute, which conducts research on the world's most dangerous diseases, will be one of the most-watched stops on the team's probe into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic

Members of the World Health Organization team, tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease, don personal protection suits during a visit at the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Center in Wuhan

WHO team visits Chinese virus lab in Wuhan

The group of independent experts spent about 4-1/2 hours on its longest site visit since completing two weeks of quarantine on Thursday

The convoy carrying the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic arrives at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in Wuhan, China February 1, 2021.

WHO team in China's Wuhan visits provincial CDC

The mission, delayed by China and weighed down by political baggage, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from animal to human

Members of a WHO team investigating the origins of Covid-19 arrived at the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market in Wuhan on Sunday

WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak

On its second day after two weeks in quarantine, the team went to Jinyintan Hospital

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, talk outside their hotel after returning from their second field trip in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021.

WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital

The hospital visit was the team’s first in the field after two weeks in quarantine

Chinese medical workers are seen as members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) leave Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 29, 2021.

WHO team in Wuhan visits hospital that treated early COVID cases

The mission has been plagued by delays, concern over access and bickering between China and the United States

Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), leaves his quarantine hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 28, 2021.

Two tornadoes strike China, killing at least 12

WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus

WHO team visits Chinese virus lab in Wuhan

WHO team in China's Wuhan visits provincial CDC

WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak

WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital

WHO team in Wuhan visits hospital that treated early COVID cases

WHO team in Wuhan investigating COVID origins leaves quarantine

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Two tornadoes strike China, killing at least 12

WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus

WHO team visits Chinese virus lab in Wuhan

WHO team in China's Wuhan visits provincial CDC

WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak

WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital

WHO team in Wuhan visits hospital that treated early COVID cases

WHO team in Wuhan investigating COVID origins leaves quarantine