- As a chef, I'm shocked. You should not mix live bird and pork. But they stand there slaughtering and there is blood flowing. It's a hygienic nightmare, he says.

The corona virus has been traced back to a food market in Wuhan and the pressure on China to act strongly against the food markets has increased. But anthropology researcher Lyle Fearnley in Singapore thinks it would be a mistake to shut them down.

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- It will be more difficult to monitor trade. The risk is that we get less knowledge instead of more.

The Foreign Office is published every Wednesday evening on SVT Play. It is also broadcast in SVT2 on Wednesday 22.15.