China News Service, February 28th. According to the Hong Kong Wenhui website, the Hong Kong Fisheries and Conservation Department found that a pet dog raised by a newly diagnosed patient with corona pneumonia had a weak positive response to the virus test. Hong Kong Food and Health Secretary Chen Zhaoshi stressed on the 28th that the AFCD does not have sufficient data to show how dogs become infected or develop disease, and there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted to humans. She urged pet owners to pay attention to personal hygiene.
Chen Zhaoshi said that the dog was asymptomatic and was being quarantined for 14 days at the animal shelter of the Fisheries and Conservation Department's Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge port. Will be returned.