BENGALURU: With rumours doing the rounds that coronavirus — COVID-19 — spreads through consumption of chicken, eggs and other such livestock, Central and state authorities have clarified that it is safe to eat poultry and poultry products. They said that only the initial source of COVID-19 transmission to humans is from wildlife (pangolin and bats) and not through consumption of livestock. The predominant route of COVID-19 is more likely to be human to human and not poultry as the prevailing scare makes it out to be. Even earlier coronavirus outbreaks, like SARS and MERS, had no involvement of poultry products, authorities stressed.