India, Feb. 27 -- Experts say an all-out ban may not be the right solution for China's woes of wildlife trade

The Chinese government has proposed to permanently ban the hunting, trading and transportation of wild animals and disallow their captive breeding and consumption, according to CGTN , a state-run broadcast network.

The proposal is yet to be passed by the Chinese Parliament.

This had been a long-pending demand of researchers since they had linked coronaviruses, including the one that caused COVID-19, to China's wildlife trade. These viruses usually get transmitted from animals to humans.

Even as more research is being conducted to confirm the source of the current outbreak, most studies have linked it to the Huanan Seafood Mark...