A worker with Hong Kong’s agriculture, fisheries and conservation department enters the Little Boss pet store in Hong Kong, China, on January 18 2022. Picture: BLOOMBERG/CHAN LONG HEIA mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparked fears among animal welfare groups on Wednesday that panicky people would abandon their pets, after 11 of the rodents from one pet shop in the city tested positive for Covid-19.
But having pursued a policy of zero tolerance for Covid-19, Hong Kong government officials took no chances after a series of recent infections with the Delta variant were traced back to a worker at a petshop. Vanessa Barrs, professor of companion animal health at City University of Hong Kong, said the move to cull the hamsters up for sale could be justified on public health protection grounds, but fears of infection at home were overblown.
Justifying the government’s actions, health secretary Sophia Chan said on Tuesday she could not rule out any transmission possibilities.
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