The Government of China in the city of Harbin, without the consent of the hostess, whispered three of her domestic cats, infected with COVID-19. It is reported by Independent.
September 21, the owner of the animals found coronavirus. She left domestic pets food and water before going to isolation. The employee of the local disease control service made cats test on COVID-19, which gave a positive result.
Despite the online appeal of the hostess of animals, they were soaked on Tuesday, September 28. According to employees of the service, they have taken such a decision, since “there is no professional treatment of animals infected with the new coronavirus.” The authorities claim that the COVID-19 cats would be threatened for all residents of the house.
The actions of the service staff caused a negative response in Chinese social networks. “Frankly speaking, it is a rough, simplified and lazy form of management, just to avoid responsibility,” said one of the users in Weibo.
In turn, Professor of Virology in British Nottingham University Rachel Tarlinton told Reuters agency that the probability of re-infection from cats was extremely small. “It seems unrealistic that cats can pollute the environment so much,” the virologist emphasized.
Professor of the City University of Hong Kong Vanessa Bars, specializing in animal health and disease, also said that the risk of transmission of infection from pets to people is low. “So far, within the whole pandemic, there were no confirmed messages about the infection of a person from a cat, unlike the situation with the grown mink in Europe,” she said.
In July, Dr. Biological Sciences, Professor School Biology School Biology University of George Mason (USA) Ancha Baranova revealed the main danger of coronavirus transfer from people to animals. “Inside the population of animals, the virus will walk and multiply. And even even humanity will win SARS-COV-2, then from time to time, outbreaks of new variants of this virus, brought from natural foci,” she said.