People who recently purchased hamsters from a pet store where nearly a dozen tested positive will have to hand over their new pets to authorities for euthanization.
Authorities in Hong Kong on Tuesday ordered the cull of 2,000 small animals after several hamsters at a pet store in the city tested positive for Covid-19, raising concerns about the pet rodents acting as a potential reservoir for the coronavirus although there is no evidence of transmission back into humans....
Customers who purchased hamsters from the affected store after January 7 will be subject to mandatory quarantine and will also have to hand over their pet rodents to authorities for euthanization. Other hamster owners have been asked to keep their pets at home, not take them out, not kiss them or abandon them on the streets.
the Associated Press, City officials acknowledged that there was “no evidence” that pets could transmit the virus to their owners, but noted the culling was being undertaken as a precautionary measure.
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