China out of UN's wildlife survey for pandemic controls: source

About 40 facilities in each participating country are to be surveyed to identify potential risks of disease transmission. - Reuters

HANOI (Reuters): China is not participating in a United Nations project to survey Asian wet markets and other facilities at high risk of spreading infectious diseases from wild animals to humans, despite long-running talks with Beijing, a UN official told Reuters.

China's hesitancy to join the UN project involving other Asian nations may compound frustration by global researchers who have been pressing Beijing to share information about the origins of Covid-19, as they seek to prevent future pandemics due to zoonotic, or animal-to-human, disease transmission.