In reply to alan.rodger:
The cynic in me thinks it's because it will likely be Chinese economic growth & finance paying a path out of the massive surging economic downturn of a pandemic followed sharply in our case by a no-deal Brexit. To misquote Marie-Antoinette... "Let them eat bats."
I agree though. Totally effed up situation. China has been urged to do something about their wet markets since the original SARS outbreak in the early 2000s. It's not just China though to be fair. Vietnam, parts of Africa and quite a few other nations have a cultural attachment to capturing, keeping, selling butchering & eating wild animals. The risks were known about.
The unthinkable has happened now. The genie is proving very hard to put back in the bottle. It will take a global strategic response to ensure it doesn't happen again, when (if) the dust settles.