Hong Kong authorities said they were not ruling out transmission between animals and humans. 9news
The city will also stop the sale of hamsters and the import of small mammals, according to officials from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.
"If you own a hamster, you should keep your hamsters at home, do not take them out," department director Leung Siu-fai said at a news conference. Customers who bought hamsters in Hong Kong from December 22 will be subject to mandatory testing and are urged not to contact others until their tests have returned negative. If their hamsters test positive, they will be subject to quarantine.
It did not identify their employer, but said the two arrived from the US on December 24 and 25 and "conducted unnecessary activities" while under medical surveillance.A police officer stands guard outside a pet shop where is closed after some pet hamsters were, authorities said, tested positive for the coronavirus, in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.
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