EU wants pandemic treaty to ban wildlife markets

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Delegates from six countries, including SA, met for the first time on Wednesday to prepare talks for a potential treaty in wake of Covid

Delegates from six countries, including SA, met for the first time on Wednesday to prepare talks for a potential treaty in the wake of CovidBadgers, rare birds, pangolins and monkeys are sold at a wildlife market in Mongla, on the border of China and Myanmar, Picture: BEN DAVIES/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGES

A spokesperson for Charles Michel, the president of the European Council who in November 2020 proposed a new treaty on pandemics, said he had no fresh comment on the matter.According to the most widely accepted theory, the Covid-19 pandemic began with the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from an animal to humans in a wildlife market in China.

The European commission, that is expected to negotiate on behalf of EU states, said that its mandate had not been agreed yet by EU governments and concrete proposals to other international negotiators will be made at a later stage. In 2021, Southern African nations were hit with punishing flight restrictions after they identified the Omicron coronavirus variant, which some fear could deter reporting of future outbreaks if incentives are not attractive enough.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

 

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