GENEVA: A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel
coronavirus
last year, as the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”, the
World Health Organization
said on Friday, calling for more research.
Chinese authorities shut down the market in January as part of efforts to halt the spread of the virus and ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife.
“The market played a role in the event, that’s clear. But what role we don’t know, whether it was the source or amplifying setting o