{"id":4701,"date":"2020-04-03T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:04:26","slug":"chinese-wet-markets-selling-bats-dogs-start-reopening-amid-coronavirus-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Chinese \u2018wet markets\u2019 selling bats, dogs start reopening amid coronavirus scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beijing:<\/strong>\u00a0Despite concerns that \u201cwet markets\u201d selling live animals like cats, dogs and bats, among others, helped spread the novel coronavirus, these markets have started reopening in several regions in China, said a media report.<\/p>\n<p>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. Mail on Sunday correspondents reported seeing meat markets open back up for business in China, the Washington Examiner reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Markets in south-west China\u2019s Guilin and southern China\u2019s Dongguan are back in business where meats of domesticated animals like cats and dogs are sold, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Following report that the wet markets might have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus, the Chinese government earlier banned the sale of wild animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus,\u201d a Mail on Sunday correspondent in Dongguan was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only difference is that security guards try to stop anyone taking pictures which would never have happened before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWet markets in China has long been drawing criticism for being unhygienic and cruel to animals. Restrictions across China started lifting as coronavirus cases in the country started levelling off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some restrictions were lifted even from Wuhan where the outbreak originated. COVID-19, the diseases caused by novel coronavirus, has spread across the world, infecting over 880,000 people, while killing more than 44,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing:\u00a0Despite concerns that \u201cwet markets\u201d selling live animals like cats, dogs and bats, among others, helped spread the novel coronavirus, these markets have started reopening in several regions in China, said a media report. While bats are believed to be the primary source of the novel coronavirus, researchers believe that an intermediate host might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}