Patient’s dog tests positive for coronavirus

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BY CHRISTOPHER BRITO

 / CBS NEWS

As humans throughout the world grapple with the widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a pet dog has been found to have a “low level” of the virus, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong’s agriculture, fisheries and conservation department said in a statement Friday. Dogs, cats and other mammals owned as pets by confirmed coronavirus patients must now undergo a 14-day quarantine, the spokesperson added.

The department said the dog, whose owner was infected with coronavirus, tested “weak positive” for COVID-19 virus after its nasal and rectal samples were collected for testing earlier this week.

“The nasal and oral cavity samples were tested weak positive to COVID-19 virus,” the department’s statement read. “The dog does not have any relevant symptoms.”

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