HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a directive to ban the country's wildlife trade with immediate effect in order to reduce the risk of new pandemics, a government statement said.
The directive bans imports of live wild animals and wildlife products, eliminates wildlife markets, and enforce prohibitions on illegal hunting and trading of wild animals, including online sales, according to the statement issued late on Thursday (July 23).
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