The Anci district of Langfang city, in northern China, on Wednesday (March 30) ordered the “complete culling of indoor animals” of COVID-19 patients, the state-run China News Service reported .
Translated through Weibo, the document stated, “In order to ensure the safety of positive patients returning home, after communicating with the Langfang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is necessary to comprehensively and thoroughly kill the animals domesticated by positive patients as soon as possible.”
It is not clear how many animals were killed.
The U.S. CDC has said that pets can get SARS-CoV-2 from humans but that the risk of pets spreading COVID-19 to people was “low.