China Wet Markets a ‘World Health Risk’: Australian PM

China Wet Markets a ‘World Health Risk’: Australian PM
Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference for COVID-19 response Canberra, April 7, 2020. Sam Mooy/Getty Images
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he is “puzzled” why the Chinese regime has allowed wet markets to reopen, doubling down on a previous comment he made that the World Health Organisation (WHO) should deal with them as a serious “world health risk.”

The prime minister said it was “unfathomable” that the Chinese regime is allowing wet markets to reopen, including the one in Wuhan where the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, is thought to have originated.
Victoria Kelly-Clark
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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