WUHAN has finally banned the sale of bats and other wild animal meat amid fears coronavirus originated in one of the city's bizarre food markets.
The Chinese city's municipal government today announced a comprehensive ban on eating all wild animals and the hunting and trading of wildlife.
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It released a list of strict new rules which will come into immediate effect and will last for at least the next five years.
According to the official statement, there will be a ban on the sale and eating of terrestrial wild animals that are both in the wild or bred for the dinner table for dishes like bat soup.
Wuhan also announced a complete ban on the hunting of wild animals stating the whole city is now "a wildlife sanctuary."
There will also be prohibitions on breeding aquatic wild animals - like frogs- for eating and bans on wildlife trading in markets and online.
"This notice shall come into force on the date of promulgation and shall be valid for five years," the the statement read.
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News of the ban was welcomed by Boris Johnson's fiancee Carrie Symonds who tweeted: 'Let's hope this remains the case.'
Wuhan is now the fourth Chinese city to outlaw dangerous practice of selling wild animals for food.
The World Health Organisation has previously pointed the finger at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city for the killer outbreak.
It claimed many of the first virus victims were stall owners, employees or regular shoppers.
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The WHO said tests on samples indicated it was the source of the outbreak or had “played a role in the initial amplification”.
The Huanan market had a wild animal section where live and slaughtered species were sold for food including snakes, frogs, beavers, porcupines and even baby crocodiles.
Close interactions with wild animals have caused numerous disease outbreaks in humans including Ebola, Sars and HIV.
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Viruses can spread more easily if animals in markets are sick or kept in dirty, cramped conditions, such as in stacked cages.
When animals are under duress, viral pathogens can intermingle, swap bits of their genetic code, and possibly mutate in ways that make them more transmissible between species.
In the case of respiratory diseases - like Covid-19 - the virus can jump to food handlers or shoppers through exposure to an animal’s bodily fluids.
Early studies showed the new strain of coronavirus did originate in bats, but scientists have been trying to find which animal then transferred it onto humans.
Different studies have so-far linked pangolins, stray dogs and snakes to the cause of the deadly outbreak which has so far claimed more than 300,000 lives.
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The search for the source of the virus has become more complex since US-China relations have soured following President Trump's claim it originated in a lab.
But China has responded to these allegations with its own conspiracy theory asserting that American soldiers may have been responsible for the outbreak.
News of the ban comes as it is revealed more than 500,000 people in Wuhan may have been infected by Covid-19.
The shock figure comes after an antibody sampling showed a positive rate of "five to six per cent" in the city.
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With a population of 11 million in Wuhan, the findings suggest that up half a million people in the city could have already been struck down.
Meanwhile the under-fire city has already screened more than half of its population - including doing half a million tests in just one day this week.
Figures released by the Wuhan Health Commission showed a staggering 467,847 nucleic acid tests were carried out on Monday.
The testing figure was more than the 335,887 conducted a day earlier as part of the health authority's ambitious campaign to test every single one of its residents by 24th May.
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Described as a '10-day battle', the mass testing initiative started on 14th May, with the central municipal government ordering all 13 of its districts to come up with their own way to test every resident within its borders.
Millions have been queuing inside gated communities, where parks and public squares are being used as assembly points and makeshift swabbing stations.
Each COVID-19 test takes about three minutes, while the procedure is free to the public, officials said.
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