In recent months, the coronavirus or COVID-19 has caused a worldwide scare, which has been increasing since the disease was first detected earlier this year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the center of the country. Currently the World Health Organization considers that the disease caused by the virus is a pandemic, because its spread has dispersed to virtually all inhabited continents, with confirmed cases in countries like Asia (from Japan to Iran), Europe (notably in Italy and Spain), America (United States and Mexico) and in Africa, particularly in Nigeria, where the first person infected with the virus has been detected.
And if this isn’t concerning enough, the extent of the virus expansion has now reached a new level since the first case of a dog infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus has been confirmed.
The animal in question was diagnosed in Hong Kong and it belongs to a woman who in turn was also detected with the coronavirus last Thursday. Partly out of curiosity, the doctors who treated the woman also ordered an examination for the dog and, in effect, it was discovered that the virus was housed in the animal as well.
The Hong Kong government said pets of coronavirus patients must be quarantined, after a dog belonging to an infected person in the city tested mildly positive for the respiratory illness https://t.co/iJb03hofRj pic.twitter.com/gXI15W8WEp
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 28, 2020
The dog was quarantined and, from this case, the health authorities of the island determined that all pets from people who are infected with coronavirus will be equally isolated and placed under observation.
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