![](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/931\/523\/AP20100094339426-e1586967299583.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
<\/picture>\nFILE – In this Feb. 24, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerl<\/span><\/p>\n “We very much hope” that China’s reported comments that it is working with the WHO and looking for a smooth visit “will happen.”<\/p>\n The virus’ origins have been the source of intense speculation, much of it centered around the likelihood that it was carried by bats and passed to humans through an intermediary species sold as food or medicine in traditional Chinese wet markets.<\/p>\n CHINA TO COUNTER 'UNJUSTIFIED' FOREIGN TRADE AND BUSINESS LAWS<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said China approved the visit after a prolonged discussion, but WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had recently expressed disappointment with the delays. <\/p>\n “Along with continuous changes in the epidemic situation, our knowledge of the virus deepens, and more early cases are discovered,” Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing, adding that the search for the origin will likely involve “multiple countries and localities.”<\/p>\n China has largely stemmed new cases of domestic transmission but said Monday that scores of people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Hebei province, bordering Beijing.<\/p>\n