Azealia Banks has claimed that Birmingham’s fish market made her ill, comparing it to a “Wuhan wet market”. The controversial US rapper, 33, shared a post to X/Twitter ordering city officials to “do something” about the stalls, as she said she had spent the last two days recovering from an unspecified illness. On 26 September she wrote: “Sidebar.
The city officials in Birmingham, UK, need to do something about the fish market at the bullring market. It’s giving putrid pathogen Wuhan wet market tease and just being in there I caught some s***. “Just spent the last two days bathing, massaging, drinking tea sweating that s*** out.
That’s not cool b.” The Wuhan wet market is a site in China that has been identified as the place where the Covid-19 pandemic most likely began . A recent scientific study published this month said it was beyond “reasonable doubt” that the virus originated there.
Banks responded to a follower: “I wasn’t even [planning on going there]. I was looking for some falsely advertised beauty supply shop I saw on Yelp and it was this little stand inside [an] outdoor building with this rank ass fish market boofin up the whole space. “I wasn’t like, on tour trying to buy raw fish lmao.
” The Birmingham fish market dates back to the 1800s and sells a range of locally caught and exotic fish, as well as fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables. Earlier this month, traders were told that their stalls could be demolished to make way f.