Pets the latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero

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Pets the latest sacrifice in China’s attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero
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The Little Boss pet store in Hong Kong did not expect to find itself in the middle of China’s war on COVID. covid19 Delta Omicron China

The Little Boss pet store in Hong Kong did not expect to find itself in the middle of China’s war on COVID.

By Wednesday the photos of the animals were followed by a three-lettered message on Instagram – “RIP”.Instagram @littleboss_hk At a government-run animal centre the AFP spoke to a man named Hau whose 10-year-old son was said to be deeply distraught about culling his pet hamster “Pudding”.There has been little research done on the transmission of COVID from hamsters to humans, although findings in thefound that humans had introduced COVID to minks in Denmark, which then may have been transmitted back to humans. 17 million minks were killed for being receptive to the disease in November 2020.

“If they lock down the cities and force everyone to do swabs routinely two times per week, they will reduce it to zero,” he said. “The question is, is it sustainable?” “We come to the conclusion that the possibility of virus infection through inbound objects cannot be ruled out,” said Pang. “If scientists are too fixated on mythical SARS-CoV-2 transmission via international mail, they might miss the actual community transmission of the virus,”For Beijing, each theory represents part of a narrative that China has fuelled from the beginning of the pandemic: COVID was imported into China from overseas before the first cases were discovered in Wuhan in December 2019.

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