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Wuhan officially bans eating wild animals as Coronavirus drives a crackdown on illegal wildlife trade.

A wet market in Wuhan where both dead and alive animals were sold, was said to have recorded the first Coronavirus case, both eating, hunting and breeding of wild animals has been banned in Wuhan, China. 

The authorities however, gave exceptions, except for "Scientific research, population regulation, monitoring of epidemic diseases and other special circumstances."

This is said to have been the first time Chinese authorities pledged to buy out breeders in attempt to curb exotic animal breeding, animal rights activists say.

It is prohibited to artificially breed terrestrial wild animals and rare and endangered aquatic wild animals under national key protection for the purpose of eating," the notice says.

 The notice also says illegal wildlife trading is "comprehensively prohibited" and there will be strengthening of "the supervision and inspection of wild animals".

 Officials will also "actively carry out wildlife protection and public health safety publicity and education, eliminate the abuse of wild animals, promote a civilised and healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle, and create a good atmosphere for people and nature to live in harmony".

The world believes that COVID-19 was transmitted from bats.