The Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan city, Hubei province, central China. (Photo: AFP / VNA)

A procession of vehicles carrying the team, made up of 14 scientists and WHO officials, was seen entering the barricaded Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in midafternoon on Sunday, according to South China Morning Post.

On Saturday, the team of experts visited Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, which treated the first patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus. Next, the delegation visited a gallery honoring the efforts of Chinese physicians in the fight against the epidemic in Wuhan.

The WHO team arrived in Wuhan on January 14. As planned, the team will carry out a virus investigation that will run for many weeks.

Formerly a bustling shopping destination, Huanan market was closed on January 1 last year after it was linked to a number of the earliest cases identified by doctors. It has not reopened.