China DENIES WHO access to bat caves as part of Covid-19 investigation
China DENIES WHO access to hundreds of bat caves and wildlife breeding farms as part of Covid-19 outbreak investigation World Health Organisation scientists want to look at caves and farms in Wuhan They believe bats and other animals there could hold key to Covid-19 outbreak But the Chinese government has refused the experts access to the areas Wet markets in the Enshi prefecture were banned from selling live animals in December 2019 - shortly before China acknowledged virus
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China is denying the World Health Organisation access to caves and farms near Wuhan which could hold clues to determining the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scientists want to visit a series of caves and wildlife farming areas in the Enshi prefecture of Hubei province - six hours west of the city where Covid-19 was first reported.
According to the Washington Post, the farms in the region were known to be thousands of wild animals download sold out in wet markets.
Their existence has produced the theory that farm animals acted as an intermediary for the virus between bats and humans.
