COVID-19 origin-tracing work should not only focus on a particular location or certain time, rather there should be global perspective with priorities and plans, an expert said on Friday at a news conference for foreign diplomats on the WHO-China joint study.

Identifying the origins of the novel Coronavirus was a complicated scientific endeavor that requires long-term and sustained efforts, orderly and efficient work and global cooperation, said Feng Zijian, deputy director of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Chinese government had already asked relevant experts to carry out COVID-19 origin tracing last January, according to Feng.

Given that COVID-19 was a newly emerged virus, it is important to find out where it came from and the route of its introduction to the human population, he said.