Those were the deeply troubling scenes yesterday as China celebrated its 'victory' over the coronavirus by reopening squalid meat markets of the type that started the pandemic three months ago, with no apparent attempt to raise hygiene standards to prevent a future outbreak.
As the pandemic that began in Wuhan forced countries worldwide to go into lockdown, a Mail on Sunday correspondent yesterday watched as thousands of customers flocked to a sprawling indoor market in Guilin, south-west China.
In another meat market in Dongguan, southern China, another correspondent photographed a medicine seller returning to business on Thursday with a billboard advertising bats - thought to be the cause of the initial Wuhan outbreak - along with scorpions and other creatures.
The correspondent who visited Dongguan said: 'The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus.
Now, after a dramatic fall in infection rates within China, the Beijing government is promoting conspiracy theories that the outbreak did not begin in China at all.
A discredited story, shared widely on China's Weibo social media platform, claims coronavirus was first detected in Italy in November.
The only Chinese city still under lockdown yesterday was Wuhan, but yesterday even the restrictions there began to be lifted, with high-speed trains allowed to operate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-markets-selling-bats.html
As the pandemic that began in Wuhan forced countries worldwide to go into lockdown, a Mail on Sunday correspondent yesterday watched as thousands of customers flocked to a sprawling indoor market in Guilin, south-west China.
In another meat market in Dongguan, southern China, another correspondent photographed a medicine seller returning to business on Thursday with a billboard advertising bats - thought to be the cause of the initial Wuhan outbreak - along with scorpions and other creatures.
The correspondent who visited Dongguan said: 'The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus.
Now, after a dramatic fall in infection rates within China, the Beijing government is promoting conspiracy theories that the outbreak did not begin in China at all.
A discredited story, shared widely on China's Weibo social media platform, claims coronavirus was first detected in Italy in November.
The only Chinese city still under lockdown yesterday was Wuhan, but yesterday even the restrictions there began to be lifted, with high-speed trains allowed to operate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-markets-selling-bats.html
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