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epa08245919 A man wearing a mask sleeps in front of closed shops at a seafood market in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, 25 February 2020. Guangzhou South China Sea Food Market was previously well known for exotic wildlife animals like crocodiles, yet now most of the shops in the market are closed. The Covid-19 epidemic that has killed more than 2,500 people mostly in China, has been linked to wild animals carrying a coronavirus and sold in a Wuhan wet market for food. On 24 February, China banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in order to battle coronavirus. EPA/ALEX PLAVEVSKI