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Infected: Businesswoman Yvonne Chow Hau Yee from Hong Kong with her doggie.
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More and more Chinese dog owners are putting respirators on their four-legged friends.
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Street scene in Shanghai: Mistress and dogs both protect themselves.
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A man goes shopping with his dog in Beijing.
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Love of animals in times of the corona virus: A Chinese woman cuddles with her dog in Beijing.
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Hong Kong health authorities confirm that a dog in a Covid 19 patient has contracted the coronavirus. Experts call this the first reported case of human-to-animal transmission.
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The pygmy peak has been repeatedly tested “weakly positive” since last Friday (LOOK reported). According to the health authorities, it appears to be a surface contamination like that South China Morning Post reported. The dog recorded traces of the virus in the nose and mouth.
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Loud “Disum Daily” The dog owner is the businesswoman Yvonne Chow Hau Yee (60), who is in a hospital in quarantine after a positive coronavirus test result.
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The animal is isolated for further tests at the Office for Agriculture, Fisheries and Nature Conservation. “It responded positively to tests and was infected, which is why it is being quarantined in one of the department’s centers,” Health Minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee said at a press conference on Wednesday.
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According to the Department of Health, experts from the University of Hong Kong, City University and the World Organization for Animal Health were consulted. They were all agreed that the results so far indicate that “the dog has a low infection rate and is probably a case of human-animal transmission”. (Noo)
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