COVID-19: Why wet markets exist in China?
This podcast discusses what a wet market is, the origin behind the popular gatherings in China and its potential suspicious ties to the outbreak of coronavirus-caused COVID-19. The subject is unfamiliar for many people in America because these types of markets aren’t commonplace, but the coronavirus has brought more attention to the subject.
“I prefer to go to a wet market to buy food instead of a supermarket, and I almost go there every day to buy what I need because the food there is fresher, and some of those are planted by the local farmers,” said Xiao Jiaqin, a resident in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, China. “All foods there are tested before entering the market, which makes me become less concerned.”
This is a class explainer multimedia project for my Reporting (MND305) class at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. I co-worked with Izzy Bartling on this together, and I retrieved the news sources via my relatives who live in Hubei.
Main graphic coutesy of South China Morning Post