A notice released by the Wuhan government says the new rules were enforced on May 13 and will remain in place for five years.

Earlier this year, experts in China said the deadly coronavirus had likely jumped onto humans from wild animals sold as food at a wet market in Wuhan.

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was shut on January 1 in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic.

This was the market believed to have sparked the worldwide outbreak, that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

The market has sold seafood and live wild animals, such as foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, koalas and game meats.

In March, the Chinese province of Wuhan, of which Wuhan is the capital, passed a law completely banning the eating of wild animals.

The month before, China’s central government stopped all trade and consumption of wildlife with a temporarily law.

But at the time, it did not detail whether farm-raised wildlife would be covered.

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