HONG KONG: Former Hong Kong health chief Ko Wing-man plans to submit a motion at the upcoming Two Sessions in Beijing, calling for a ban on the hunting and consumption of game animals in light of the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) epidemic.
Ko, a former secretary for food and health and now a Hong Kong member of the nation’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee, intends to submit the proposal along with another CPPCC delegate, Cheung Chi-kong of the One Country, Two Systems Research Institute.