The State Council Information Office will hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m. BJT on Thursday to brief on origin-tracing of novel coronavirus. 

Vice Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping, Vice Minister of the National Health Commission Zeng Yixin and Director of National Center for Respiratory Medicine Wang Chen will attend the briefing together with Liang Wannian, the team leader of the Chinese side of the joint expert team of World Health Organization-convened global study of origins of COVID-19, and Yuan Zhiming, professor at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.