After the outbreak and its rapid diffusion, the Chinese government temporarily banned all trade of wildlife on January 26, 2020, three days after Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million, was locked.
More than 47,000 live wild animals were sold from wet markets in the central city of Wuhan, between 2017 and 2019, before the first cases of Covid-19 were officially reported, officially reported in the city, says a new scientific article.
Investigated by international scientists, including China, the document said that up to 47,381 animals of 38 species were sold in 17 markets in Wuhan, between May 2017 and November 2019, including 31 protected species.
The animals were kept in cages with poor well-being and hygiene, which raised the risks to health.
The Chinese government said that the first COVID-19 cases were detected in Wuhan at the beginning of December, the infection at that time described as a kind of pneumonia.
Many of the first cases of Human infection Covid-19 were linked to the Huanan seafood market of Wuhan, initially identified as where SARS-COV-2 jumped for the first time to humans through a zoonotic process, but a similar number of Cases was also associated with other markets.
The new document, written by researchers from China, Great Britain and Canada, and published in the open access journal, scientific reports on June 7, said there was no evidence that bats or pannolines sold in Wuhan, but dogs of raccoon, squirrels and foxes. All were available. “We noticed that Pangolins or bats were not negotiated, supporting the reformed opinion that the Pangolines were not probably the host of the spill at the Coreavirus current pandemic source (COVID-19)”, the authors wrote in the report.
The experts added: “While we warn against the errata of the origins of Covid-19, the wild animals for sale in Wuhan suffered bad conditions of wellness and hygiene and detailed a range of other zoonotic infections that can be potentially.”
The marketed species were able to organize a wide range of infectious zoonotic diseases or parasites that reveal diseases, researchers found.
After the outbreak and its rapid diffusion, the Chinese government temporarily banned all trade of wildlife on January 26, 2020, three days after Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million, was locked.
The government permanently banned eating and negotiating land animals (non-farmers) for food on February 24, the same year. “These interventions, designed to protect human health, repair previous negotiation and enforcement inconsistencies, and will have collateral benefits for the conservation of global biodiversity and animal welfare,” the newspaper said.
