People want permanent closure of Southeast Asia´s wildlife markets in response to COVID-19: WWF
(WorldNews Pakistan)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s close link with animal-to-human transmission, over 90 percent of respondents surveyed in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong support a government-led closure of illegal and unregulated wildlife markets, according to a new research commissioned by the (World Wide Fund For Nature) WWF. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases, which are transmitted from animals to humans -- and wildlife markets into sharp focus. A perception survey conducted by GlobeScan in March 2020, which included 5,000 participants from Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, wildlife consumer countries, found that 82 per cent...