A normed space is said to have ball-covering property if its unit sphere can be contained in the union of countably many open balls off the origin. This paper shows that for every ε > 0 every Banach space with a w * -separable dual has a 1+ε-equivalent norm with the ball covering property.Citation: Cheng L X, Shi H H, Zhang W. Every Banach space with a w * -separable dual has a 1 + ε-equivalent norm with the ball covering property.