On 24 February 2020, the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress in China passed a decision to ban the consumption of wildlife as food, and the illegal wildlife trade. We welcome and applaud the government’s efforts to control the COVID-19 outbreak, but there’s been a lot of misinformation online recently, around the subject of coronavirus and the connection to China’s wildlife trade.

1st April was a momentous day in Guangdong Province, when the City of Shenzhen passed a law to ban eating dogs, cats and select additional species, but left hundreds of other wild and domestic animals on the menu.

An alarming claim which started in Asia is circulating the world, claiming that bear bile will provide salvation from COVID-19.