Hong Kong Says Hamsters May Have Infected a Pet Shop Worker With COVID-19. Now They All Must Die


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After health officials claimed that they were responsible for spreading COVID-19 to a worker at a Hong Kong pet shop, authorities in Hong Kong ordered the death of approximately 2,000 hamsters. 11 samples of hamsters from the Little Boss Pet Shop in the Chinese Territory have shown positive results for COVID-19 Delta. After a worker in the shop aged 23 tested positive for COVID-19, officials suspected the small creatures. Although authorities agree Tuesday that there is no proof to suggest pets could transmit the SARS virus to humans (CoV-2), customers who came to the shop after January 7th will still...