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Coronavirus: Carrie Symonds calls for global ban on wildlife trade in wake of pandemic

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Carrie Symonds has joined calls for a worldwide ban on the sale of wildlife which may have provided the ideal situation for Covid-19 to jump to humans.

Boris Johnson's fiancee has signed a petition calling for a worldwide ban on the markets where animals caught in the wild are often sold for consumption.

Writing on Twitter, Ms Symonds,who is a longtime animal rights activist and is expecting her first child early this summer, said the current coronavirus outbreak was "a chance to start doing things better".

The Covid-19 outbreak is widely thought to have originated in a "wet market" in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where it is believed to have made the jump from animals - possibly bats - to humans.

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