China’s ‘wet markets’ start selling bats, dogs again: Reported

Despite concerns that "wet markets" selling live animmals like cats, dogs and bats helped spread the novel coronavirus, these Markets have started reopening in a few districts in China.

While bats are believed to be the primary source of the novel coronavirus, researchers believe that an intermediate host might have carried it to humans.

Markets in south-west China's Guilin and southern China's Dongguan are back in business where meats of domestic animals like cats and dogs are sold, the Washington Examiner reported.

Following report that the wet markets might have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus, the Chinese government earlier banned the sales of wild animals.

"The market have returned to working in the very same manner as they did before coronavirus," the newspaper quoted an anonymous source as saying .

"The main difference is that security guards try to stop anyone taking pictures which would never have happened before.

"Wet markets in China has for some time been drawing analysis for being unhygienic and cruel to animals. Restrictons across China started lifting as coronavirus cases in the country began leveling off."

Some restriction were lifted even from Wuhan where the outreak originated. COVID-19, the diseases brought about by novel coronavirus, has spread over the world, infecting more than 880,000 individuals, while killing more than of 44,000 individuals.