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Wall Street Journal: Study shows live wildlife sold in Wuhan markets before Covid-19 outbreak

Published June 9, 2021 at 12:18 am

This file photo taken on Jan. 12, 2021, shows a store owner arguing with security guards as he attempts to enter the closed Huanan wholesale seafood market, where health authorities say a man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods from, in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province.

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More than 47,000 wild animals were sold in the Chinese city of Wuhan in the two and a half years before the first confirmed Covid-19 cluster was found there, a new study showed, providing critical new evidence that the coronavirus could have spread naturally from animals to humans.