Coronavirus: Australia urges G20 action on wildlife wet markets
Speaking to the ABC on Thursday,"A wet market, like the Sydney fish market, is perfectly safe," he said.
"But when you add wildlife, live wildlife, exotic wildlife - that opens up human risk and biosecurity risk to the extent we have seen. "And in fact, China themselves reported this to the World Organisation for Animal Health, that that was the cause of Covid-19." Mr Littleproud said he wanted to"get the science" first, but said:"Even our chief veterinary officer is telling us that he believes they [wildlife wet markets] may need to be phased out."Donald Trump was recently asked if the virus emanated in a laboratory, rather than marketThe exact origin of the new coronavirus is not known, but the evidence suggests it came from an animal.
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