Dept slams claims virus came from Thailand
Checks on market bats ‘show no link’
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday dismissed news reports suggesting Thailand was the source of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying it had conducted tests on various types of wildlife claimed to have contained the virus that causes the disease and found the claims were untrue.
The department was responding to Denmark’s daily newspaper Politiken that published an article on Monday questioning whether Chatuchak Market was indeed “the place that brought the coronavirus to Wuhan”.
The article quoted Danish epidemiologist Thea Kolsen Fischer,…
