The World Health Organization has called for more research as the wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year. This can be the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”.
Chinese authorities shut down the market in January as part of efforts to halt the spread of the virus and ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife.
It was not clear whether live animals or infected vendors or shoppers may have brought the virus into the market.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said there is “a significant amount of evidence” the virus came from the Wuhan laboratory, although he has also said there wasn’t certainty.
No public evidence has linked the outbreak to the lab in Wuhan and scientists have said the coronavirus appears to have developed in nature. A German intelligence report cast doubts on Pompeo’s allegations.
A common sight across Asia, wet markets traditionally sell fresh produce and live animals, such as fish, in the open air. Many markets worldwide that sell live animals must be better regulated and hygiene conditions improved, and some should be closed down.
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