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May 20, 2020 - News from the city where the coronavirus pandemic began: Wuhan has banned hunting and consumption of wild animal meat for five years. The measure affects the cause that would have resulted from the spread of Covid 19 and that is the animal nature of the virus and the subsequent infection that has sparked many controversies about the eating habits of the Chinese population.The city administration announced the news via social networks. The news was released in the evening, local time, by the Chinese state media and the ban also concerns the illegal trade in wild animals.
The new rules, which come into effect today, will also make it more difficult to obtain the license for anyone who wants to breed, hunt or sell wild animals. And the eating habits of the citizens will inevitably change.
In the aftermath of the outbreak in Wuhan, the Chinese government issued a temporary ban on illegal wildlife trade, which was sold in Wuhan's Huanan market, where some of the first cases of people with abnormal pneumonia were registered. Several wildlife specimens - including bats - had been identified as possible intermediaries for the transmission of the new Covid-19 coronavirus to humans.