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You may have seen reports last week that a dog in Hong Kong had tested “weak positive” to Covid-19. Experts in the UK told the Guardian they thought it was unlikely to be an actual infection, and that one possible explanation was that a dog had produced a false positive test as a result of close contact with a human who had the virus, or from coming in contact with the virus via touch.
The dog showed no relevant symptoms of the virus authorities said and Hong Kong health authorities advised that it had no evidence that pets can be infected with Covid-19 or a source of the infection. But a spokesman from the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), said: “To ensure public and animal health, the department strongly advise mammalian pets of patients confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 virus to be put under quarantine by the AFCD.”
Past experience with coronaviruses and our current understanding of #COVID19 do not indicate that common household pets spread the disease or make people sick. We will provide further updates as we learn more.
If you’re just catching up with the latest news on the virus, outbreak, a reminder that the World Health Organization has raised the risk assessment “very high” globally. It also said the risk within #China remains unchanged as “very high.”
The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the risk level had been elevated for two reasons
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