"A scoping mission to China is set for ideally this weekend, but logistics we have to make sure we can actually organise it, but we will have an animal health expert and epidemiologist going," Dr Harris said.
"There will also be the work on the wider enquiry that Australia led the request for, that also will be going on."
Dr Harris said the WHO team will investigate how animals host COVID-19 and how it is transferred to humans.
WHO officials say it is vital to understand how the virus passed from wild animals to farm livestock and then to humans.
Australia has repeatedly called for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus that erupted in Wuhan province in China late last year.
But Beijing has pushed back leading to a major diplomatic rift with Australia.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the team's findings would be made public.
"WHO will continue to communicate the latest scientific advances to the media and general public as we have them."
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