The Chinese government has promoted doctors who use medicine made from parts of wild beasts to treat COVID-19 sufferers - despite the disease having first come from eating wildlife.
China’s National Health Commission recommended a lengthy list of treatments for coronavirus patients, one of which has bear bile as one of its ingredients.
Animal activists soon unleashed a wave of criticism and later went on to blast the endorsed product was “tragic” and “iconic”.
While the exact origin of COVID-19 is unknown, it is believed to have been passed onto human from an animal in Wuhan’s wet market.