Coronavirus: WHO urges China to close ‘dangerous’ wet market as stalls in Wuhan begin to reopen
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: WHO urges China to close ‘dangerous’ wet market as stalls in Wuhan begin to reopen

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The World Health Organisation is urging countries across the world to close “dangerous” wet markets amid warnings about the risks posed by environments where humans are in close contact with animals. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Dr Nabarro said while WHO is not able to tell governments what to do, their advice is to close wet markets. Traders sell fresh produce, fruit and vegetables in wet markets alongside wild and domestic animals mainly for consumption in wet markets, which are common in China, South Korea and southeast Asia. Dr Nabarro added: “We have similar concerns about bushmeat – be very very careful when you’re basically eating wild animal meat or killing wild animals.

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Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish stall made her ill: ‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’
3 months, 1 week ago

Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish stall made her ill: ‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’

The Independent  

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Coronavirus carrying animals sold at Wuhan wet markets for years, finds study
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus carrying animals sold at Wuhan wet markets for years, finds study

India TV News  

Animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years, finds a new study supporting the theory that the Covid-19 is the result of virus jumping from animals to humans. Researchers from the Chinese government's Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of British Columbia …

COVID or not, ‘the desire to eat wildlife’ continues in Asia
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID or not, ‘the desire to eat wildlife’ continues in Asia

Al Jazeera  

Countries in the region moved to ban the sale and consumption of wildlife after COVID-19 emerged, but coronavirus remains rampant and so does the trade. Several Asian countries have passed new laws to curb the sale of ‘bush meat’ and limit activity at wet markets during the pandemic. In Indonesia, the site of Asia’s worst COVID-19 outbreak with more than …

Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says

Daily Mail  

No bats or pangolins were sold at Wuhan wet markets immediately before the coronavirus pandemic started, according to an Oxford-led study. Most of the early theories pointed to bats - but according to the new study, no bats were sold there A menagerie of nearly 50,000 animals was documented by the scientists, but not a single bat was among the …

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness
3 years, 7 months ago

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness

LA Times  

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with patients and medical workers at a hospital in Wuhan, the first place hit hard by the novel coronavirus of unknown origins. It wasn’t so much what he did — ordering U.S. intelligence agencies to take a new look at the origins of COVID-19, including whether the coronavirus that causes the disease escaped accidentally from …

Food market ban by WHO overlooks risk from chickens and fish, warn activists
3 years, 8 months ago

Food market ban by WHO overlooks risk from chickens and fish, warn activists

The Independent  

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Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade: How loopholes in China’s animal protection law risk new virus outbreaks
3 years, 10 months ago

Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade: How loopholes in China’s animal protection law risk new virus outbreaks

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While some animals, such as the blue peacock, have …

Coronavirus | WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

The Hindu  

A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited the food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections. The team members visited the Huanan Seafood Market for about an hour in the afternoon, and one of them flashed a thumbs up sign when reporters asked how …

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues
3 years, 11 months ago

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A World Health Organization team …

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues
3 years, 11 months ago

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

India Today  

A World Health Organisation team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited a market known to be the food distribution center for the Chinese city of Wuhan during the 76-day lockdown last year. The team members were seen walking through sections of the Baishazhou market - one of the largest wet markets in Wuhan - surrounded …

A year on, markets bustling in Wuhan where COVID-19 emerged
4 years, 1 month ago

A year on, markets bustling in Wuhan where COVID-19 emerged

Live Mint  

Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles. Almost a year since the city reported the world's first cases of COVID-19 in one of its handful of vast wet markets, and even as several other countries remain firmly in …

Wuhan’s seafood market, believed to be the origin of COVID-19, remains sealed
4 years, 4 months ago

Wuhan’s seafood market, believed to be the origin of COVID-19, remains sealed

Hindustan Times  

The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, believed by many to be the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains shut “We are just doing our job,” said a guard in black who ordered a Reuters reporter to delete footage recorded near …

China tries to flip the coronavirus pandemic script, starring a ’reborn’ Wuhan
4 years, 4 months ago

China tries to flip the coronavirus pandemic script, starring a ’reborn’ Wuhan

Live Mint  

China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing. The PR blitz plays out daily in comments by Chinese officials and lavish state media coverage of a "reborn" Wuhan that trumpets China's epidemic-control efforts …

China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan
4 years, 4 months ago

China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan

India Today  

China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing. The PR blitz plays out daily in comments by Chinese officials and lavish state media coverage of a "reborn" Wuhan that trumpets China's epidemic-control efforts …

Vietnam bans wildlife imports and markets amid concerns over coronavirus spread
4 years, 5 months ago

Vietnam bans wildlife imports and markets amid concerns over coronavirus spread

ABC  

Vietnam has announced it will ban wildlife imports and close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals to humans, such as the virus that causes COVID-19. Key points: Vietnam has long been a large market for illegal wildlife products due to their use in traditional medicine Australia has pushed for …

WHO's coronavirus sleuths are heading to China but it may be too late to solve the pandemic's mysteries
4 years, 6 months ago

WHO's coronavirus sleuths are heading to China but it may be too late to solve the pandemic's mysteries

ABC  

This week the World Health Organization is sending in a team to China to investigate the origins of coronavirus, posing an unusual challenge to Beijing's efforts to suggest COVID-19 came from abroad. "Chinese experts believe the team should hold discussions with the Chinese side on how to conduct the work globally and fairly, noting that the visit does not mean …

Heavy traces of coronavirus found in seafood, meat sections of Beijing food market
4 years, 6 months ago

Heavy traces of coronavirus found in seafood, meat sections of Beijing food market

Deccan Chronicle  

Beijing: China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing’s wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspects the area’s low temperature and high humidity may have been contributing factors, officials said on Thursday. Their preliminary report comes as the country’s capital tackles a resurgence of COVID-19 cases over the past week …

Beijing says it must improve hygiene in markets after new outbreak
4 years, 6 months ago

Beijing says it must improve hygiene in markets after new outbreak

Deccan Chronicle  

Shanghai: Low standards of hygiene in China’s wholesale food markets and vulnerabilities in its food supply chain need to be urgently addressed after a new coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, a leading body of the ruling Communist Party said. The Communist Party’s top disciplinary body said the outbreak underlined the urgent need to improve sanitation standards and minimise health risks at …

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus infections
4 years, 6 months ago

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus infections

Deccan Chronicle  

Shanghai: Authorities in Beijing have temporarily shut a major wholesale agricultural market following a rise in locally transmitted novel coronavirus infections in China’s capital city over the past two days. The closure of the Xinfadi wholesale market at 3 a.m. local time on Saturday, came after two men working at a meat research centre who had recently visited the market …

China cracks down on the hunting and trading of coronavirus-linked pangolins
4 years, 7 months ago

China cracks down on the hunting and trading of coronavirus-linked pangolins

Daily Mail  

China has stepped up the protection efforts of pangolins - believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal - as the country continues to clamp down on the wild animal trade amid the COVID-19 pandemic. China has increased the protection level of critically endangered pangolins from class two to class one, meaning anyone found guilty of trafficking them would face …

Coronavirus: Live animal markets and wildlife trade continue in Asia amid growing calls for crackdown
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: Live animal markets and wildlife trade continue in Asia amid growing calls for crackdown

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In parts of China and regions of Southeast Asia, live animal markets and the wildlife trade continues despite growing …

Coronavirus: WHO backs away from ban on live animal markets, prompting warnings over emergence of new diseases
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: WHO backs away from ban on live animal markets, prompting warnings over emergence of new diseases

The Independent  

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Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade …

Chinese man detected with worms in lungs after eating raw seafood
4 years, 8 months ago

Chinese man detected with worms in lungs after eating raw seafood

Op India  

A Chinese man named Wang was reported to have contracted paragonimiasis, a parasitic infection, in Suqian, Jiangsu province of China after his regular diet consisted of water snails, crayfish, and raw snake’s gallbladder. The Chinese man visited a respiratory doctor, Dr. Zhao Haiyan, after experiencing breathing difficulties, only to find that his lungs were infested with live snakes and worms. …

Chinese activists fear coronavirus wet market restrictions will drive live animal trade underground
4 years, 8 months ago

Chinese activists fear coronavirus wet market restrictions will drive live animal trade underground

ABC  

Activists fighting the wild animal trade in China say restrictions on sales at wet markets are pushing the dangerous trade underground. Key points: Two-thirds of initial COVID-19 cases were linked to a Wuhan marketplace Two-thirds of initial COVID-19 cases were linked to a Wuhan marketplace In late February, China temporarily banned poaching, selling and eating wild animals In late February, …

Coronavirus: Indian street traders ‘risking human health by slaughtering goats, lambs and chickens in squalid conditions’
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Indian street traders ‘risking human health by slaughtering goats, lambs and chickens in squalid conditions’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Street traders in India — as well as southeast Asia — are risking starting dangerous …

Chinese Government official slams Australia's push for an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak
4 years, 8 months ago

Chinese Government official slams Australia's push for an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak

ABC  

China has criticised Australia's push for an independent international probe of the coronavirus pandemic, describing the move as "political manoeuvring". Key points: Australia wants an investigation of China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak Australia wants an investigation of China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak China has accused Australia of "ideological bias and political games" China has accused Australia of "ideological …

Coronavirus: ‘Exotic’ skins in shoe and handbag fashion stores fuel risk of further epidemics, say experts
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: ‘Exotic’ skins in shoe and handbag fashion stores fuel risk of further epidemics, say experts

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lynn Johnson, founder of Nature Needs More, told The Independent: …

Coronavirus: Hundreds of conservation experts join forces to pressure WHO to force live animal markets to close
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Hundreds of conservation experts join forces to pressure WHO to force live animal markets to close

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. More than 200 conservation groups across the world have signed an open letter calling on the organisation to do …

Coronavirus: Carrie Symonds joins new global fight to end wildlife trade and animal trafficking
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Carrie Symonds joins new global fight to end wildlife trade and animal trafficking

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The movement comes after The Independent launched a campaign against the wildlife trade, with conservationist Jane Goodall warning: “As …

Coronavirus: US calls on China to ban wildlife markets, as top Trump official accuses Beijing of ‘cover up’
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: US calls on China to ban wildlife markets, as top Trump official accuses Beijing of ‘cover up’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Given the strong link between illegal wildlife sold in wet markets and zoonotic diseases, the United States has called …

Coronavirus: Australia calls on G20 nations to close wet wildlife markets
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Australia calls on G20 nations to close wet wildlife markets

The Independent  

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Australia calls for independent study of wet market risks in response to coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Australia calls for independent study of wet market risks in response to coronavirus pandemic

ABC  

Australia has ratcheted up pressure on China to look into the health risks associated with wildlife wet markets as the world continues to battle the deadly spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Key points: The Government has called for a scientific investigation of wet markets Agriculture Minister David Littleproud says people need to know the food they eat is safe More …

China should tell whether coronavirus first developed in lab or Wuhan wet market: US NSA
4 years, 8 months ago

China should tell whether coronavirus first developed in lab or Wuhan wet market: US NSA

India TV News  

Washington: China should come forward with "real evidence" and tell the world about where and how the deadly coronavirus developed, US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien has said. "The burden's really on the Chinese to come forward with real evidence about where this virus developed," O’Brien said on Tuesday in an interview with Hugh Hewitt. A wet market in the …

Wuhan Coronavirus not a ‘natural virus’, but was leaked from a Wuhan lab by an intern: Read shocking revelations made in a report
4 years, 8 months ago

Wuhan Coronavirus not a ‘natural virus’, but was leaked from a Wuhan lab by an intern: Read shocking revelations made in a report

Op India  

A report published by Fox News makes a shocking revelation that the Wuhan coronavirus that has swept the globe was not a natural virus but a man-made one which was accidentally leaked by an intern working at the lab at Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Mounting an attack against China for its possible complicity in the spread of the …

Wuhan’s ‘wet markets’ reopen, face heat
4 years, 8 months ago

Wuhan’s ‘wet markets’ reopen, face heat

The Hindu  

At a large food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, signs forbid the selling of wild animals and live fowl, while announcements calling for “victory” over COVID-19 play on a loop from speakers. China’s “wet markets” have been slammed internationally as the coronavirus roils the world, with the disease having seemingly emerged from stalls selling live animals in Wuhan …

‘Thrilling news’: Second Chinese city bans consumption of dog and cat meat
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Thrilling news’: Second Chinese city bans consumption of dog and cat meat

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Zhuhai’s ban on dog and cat meat eating is thrilling news for all those in China and around the …

Coronavirus: Paul McCartney blames Chinese wet markets for Covid-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Paul McCartney blames Chinese wet markets for Covid-19

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Paul McCartney has criticised …

China’s wet markets are not what some people think they are
4 years, 8 months ago

China’s wet markets are not what some people think they are

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — If you have ever been to a shopping area where butchers and grocers sell fresh produce straight from the farm, then you have been to something that would, in some parts of the world, be called a wet market. Speaking on April 3, the US’ top infectious disease specialist, Anthony Fauci, told Fox News that all …

Coronavirus: Australia slams WHO support for China wet markets
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Australia slams WHO support for China wet markets

Daily Mail  

Australia has piled pressure on the World Health Organisation after it backed the reopening of China's wet markets despite them being the likely origin of COVID-19. The WHO last week claimed China's wet markets could be made to sell safe food with increased hygiene practices and refused to support their closure as they are an important source of food and …

‘Life will always find a way’: China tries to shut down wildlife trade but markets remain open
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Life will always find a way’: China tries to shut down wildlife trade but markets remain open

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The steady demand for such wildlife has nurtured a …

‘Shut it down’: Pressure piles on China to rethink relationship with wild animals as pandemic causes global chaos
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Shut it down’: Pressure piles on China to rethink relationship with wild animals as pandemic causes global chaos

The Independent  

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We need coordinated global action over animal markets to help prevent the next pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

We need coordinated global action over animal markets to help prevent the next pandemic

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The global death toll now exceeds …

Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat
4 years, 8 months ago

Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market. China’s Ministry of Agriculture issued a draft list of animals considered fit to be used as livestock on …

COVID-19 | Wet markets important risk factor for disease spread: UN biodiversity chief
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 | Wet markets important risk factor for disease spread: UN biodiversity chief

The Hindu  

The wet markets, such as the Huanan Seafood Market in China’s virus-hit Wuhan city, are an important “risk factor” for disease spread, the UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema has said as she called for scaling up stricter controls on the sale and consumption of wild species globally. “Live animal markets are an important risk factor for disease spread as …

Unregulated markets selling wildlife illegally should be shutdown, in South East Asia, in order to mitigate spread of diseases
4 years, 9 months ago

Unregulated markets selling wildlife illegally should be shutdown, in South East Asia, in order to mitigate spread of diseases

Firstpost  

People from Myanmar supported the crackdown on markets the strongest as illegal trade has been taking place openly in these regions. The coronavirus pandemic has generated overwhelming support for the closure of markets selling illegal wildlife across Southeast Asia, an epicentre of the multi-billion-dollar trade, the World Wildlife Fund said in a public opinion poll on Monday. About 93 percent …

Australian PM Scott Morrison seeks a global response against China's wet markets
4 years, 9 months ago

Australian PM Scott Morrison seeks a global response against China's wet markets

Op India  

The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to act against China’s wet markets. Generally, wet markets refer to the markets that sell fresh meat, fish, etc, but in China, these markets are known to sell the meat of wild animals, even smuggled endangered species from other nations, which are known sources of …

Reports of wild meat sold in China markets take Twitter by storm. Here's why this is concerning
4 years, 9 months ago

Reports of wild meat sold in China markets take Twitter by storm. Here's why this is concerning

Firstpost  

If the reports are correct, then it would mean that we, as a species, have failed to learn a very important lesson from this pandemic. Earlier this week, news reports started filtering in that China had started selling bats, pangolins and other wild meats in its “wet” markets again. These news reports cited British journalists who had seen this happening …

China Reopens Wet Markets Despite Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

China Reopens Wet Markets Despite Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic

ABP News  

MACAU, CHINA - JANUARY 28: Residents wearing face masks purchase seafood at a wet market on January 28, 2020 in Macau, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 4000 in mainland China Tuesday as health officials locked down the city of Wuhan last week in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like …

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