In South Korea pets must quarantine at home if test positive for COVID

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Pet cats and dogs in the capital city of South Korea will be tested for Covid-19 if they show symptoms, the Seoul metropolitan government has said.

It comes a few weeks after the country reported its first Covid-19 case in an animal - a kitten.

Only pets which show symptoms like fever or breathing difficulties after being exposed to human carriers of the virus will be tested.

The pet must quarantine at home for 14 days if it tests positive for the virus.
If the pet's owners are hospitalised with Covid-19, or are too ill, the pet will be taken into quarantine at a city-run facility.

Earlier last month, a kitten that was found at a religious facility in the southeastern city of Jinju was found to be infected. Health authorities suspect that a mother and daughter, who were staying at the facility, had passed the virus on to the kitten. Both have tested positive for Covid-19.

Experts had previously said it was highly unlikely that a dog or cat could transmit the virus to people, though research has shown that cats may be able to carry the virus and pass it on to other cats.
 

Globally, several pets have tested positive for the virus - though such cases are generally quite rare. Two gorillas in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park contracted Covid-19 from a human handler. It has also been found in a number of other wild animals, including lions and tigers in the Bronx Zoo in New York and lions at Barcelona Zoo in Spain.
 

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Makes perfect sense to me.

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This is somehow so cute to me :p

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babies, we must protect them at all costs