Ricky Gervais has demanded governments around the world close the wildlife “wet markets” where the coronavirus is believed to have first infected humans.
The Covid-19 virus, which is thought to have originated in bats, was reportedly first contracted by a human in a “wet market” in Wuhan, China late last year before spreading across the globe.
Chinese officials shut down the market, after becoming concerned the virus had begun to spread, and now Ricky has called on them to make the ban permanent and for other countries with similar practices, like Indonesia, to close them or risk humanity’s future. “For the sake of people and animals, wildlife trade and consumption has to end, now,” the After Life star told Britain’s Sunday Mirror, whose