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WHO's 12 April 2021 guidance was narrower than this sentence says.

The WHO Q&A states that WHO, OIE and UNEP were recommending countries "suspend trade in live wild mammals for food and close sections of food markets selling these animals." It then explicitly says the suspension does not cover farmed or domestically raised animals such as poultry, beef, pork, sheep, and goats, and does not cover fish or seafood.

So the article's wording turns a targeted recommendation about live wild mammals into a total ban on the sale of live animals in food markets, which is materially broader than what WHO actually said.

This sentence contradicts the Malaysian government's March 2020 movement-control announcement.

Bernama's report of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's 16 March 2020 announcement says that under the order, business premises were to close "except for supermarkets, wet markets, grocery shops and convenience stores selling daily necessities."

That means wet markets were specifically allowed to continue operating as essential outlets. Even if some market formats such as night markets later faced separate restrictions, the blanket claim that Malaysia temporarily banned the operation of all wet markets in March 2020 is incorrect.

The act number is wrong here.

The Cooperative Development Authority's official text of Republic Act No. 9520 says it is "AN ACT AMENDING THE COOPERATIVE CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES" and identifies Republic Act No. 6938 as the earlier "Cooperative Code of the Philippines."

The same official page separately refers to "Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code."

So calling RA 7160 the Cooperatives Code is incorrect; RA 7160 is the Local Government Code, while the cooperative code is RA 6938, later amended by RA 9520.

This overstates what the WHO-led investigation found.

In the WHO Director-General's 30 March 2021 remarks presenting the mission report, WHO said: "The role of animal markets is still unclear." It also said the team had confirmed contamination in the Huanan market but "could not determine the source of this contamination," and Tedros added that "all hypotheses remain on the table."

The report itself was similarly cautious: it said that transmission outside the market and early non-market cases could suggest the market was not the original source, but that "No firm conclusion therefore about the role of the Huanan Market can be drawn."

So the article's wording is too strong. The WHO investigation did not conclude that the Huanan market was unlikely to be the origin; it said the evidence was still inconclusive.

This date is wrong.

A Taipei City Government news page from May 2021 said the new Nanmen Market would be completed in 2023, not 2022. A later official page from Taipei's New Construction Office states that the Nanmen Building and Market Reconstruction Turnkey Project ... was completed on October 4, 2023.

Because the project was officially completed in 2023, the article's statement that the replacement building would be completed in 2022 is incorrect.