Actor and animal rights activist Ricky Gervais has called on governments to close wet markets and end wildlife trade immediately to halt another global pandemic.
Amid the coronavirus crisis, where some of the earliest infections were found in people exposed to markets in the central city of Wuhan, traders globally have been warned by officials to stop selling dogs, cats, bats, rats, and other animals. Read the latest updates: Coronavirus news live.
Horrific footage emerged last week from wet markets, as conversation ramped up to bring in a global ban. The upsetting footage filmed in Thailand and Indonesia in early April showed that despite the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘wet markets’ or live-animal markets, are still operating.