Experts say culling of Hong Kong hamsters is 'excessive and unwarranted'

Hong Kong's choice to kill thousands of hamsters, hares and chinchillas on the never recently seen hazard that they could spread Covid-19 to people is an overreaction borne of Covid Zero politics that might no affect the pandemic, specialists said. The city, which has marked its notoriety and its future on being a Covid-free bastion, is wrestling with the simultaneous arrival of the omicron and delta variants after over a half year without a solitary nearby contamination that wasn't attached to worldwide travel. While its robust tracking and tracing efforts permitted specialists to pinpoint the beginning of pretty much every…