Sandhya Mridul Is Aghast As China Reopens Its ‘Wet Markets’ Selling Bats, Dogs For Consumption Amid Coronavirus Pandemic; ‘Khud Ko Kha Jao Yaar’

The coronavirus pandemic has become a cause for worry and concern among people all across the world, as the deadly virus continues to spread globally. With no vaccination to fight it currently, there has been a lot of uncertainty as to when this pandemic will end. Several experts and scientists believe that it was spread first from a bat in China, and then passed on to another animal before being passed on to humans. There are also reports suggesting that the first person to have contracted COVID-19 could have been infected through a wet market. So as the news of China reopening its wet markets surfaced on the Internet, Sandhya Mridul was appalled by the news.

Sandhya Mridul was shell shocked when she read about China opening its wet markets which sell bats, dogs, pangolins for human consumption. This report came in the wake of the decreasing number of COVID-19 cases in China. Sandhya Mridul took to her Twitter handle and expressed her shock and anger by writing, “Are you effin serious?! Khud ko kha jao yaar (eat yourself instead),” along with a punch emoji.  Not just Sandhya Mridul, a lot of people on social media have been criticizing and slamming China for this move.

Check out Sandhya Mridul’s tweet here:

Meanwhile, Washington Examiner quoted a correspondent of ‘A Mail on Sunday’ saying, “The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus." The World Health Organization (WHO) had also said in a statement on January 12, “The evidence is highly suggestive that the outbreak is associated with exposures in one seafood market in Wuhan.”