Two dogs tested positive for PCR Tests for the first pet were the first new corona

Two dogs tested positive by PCR Tests were the first to report positive pets New Corona 0:26 on August 4

A pet insurance company, which is working to take care of pets from people infected with the new coronavirus, performed PCR test on the dogs that they kept and announced that two were "positive".
This is the first time a pet has been positively reported in Japan.

According to "Anicom Holdings", a pet insurance company, in late July, two dogs from two households in the Tokyo metropolitan area were put in a PCR test to protect pets of people infected with the new coronavirus. It means "positive".

According to the company, it can not be denied that the virus has just adhered, so it is not possible to determine whether it was actually infected, so two dogs did not show symptoms, one of them was It means that it has already become negative.

At the company, all of the pets were tested by PCR when they were kept, and the two animals became positive after two tests, and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases was tested again to confirm the positive results.

According to the Ministry of the Environment, this is the first time that a pet has been reported as positive in the country.

According to Anicom Holdings, "There are reports that animals will become negative within a few days, so it is important not to lead to abandonment of breeding. I would like to continue thorough infection control measures."

In addition, regarding the possibility of transmission from pets to humans, the CDC=Center for Disease Control in the United States posted on a webpage and the like, "There is limited information at this point, but the risk of spreading the virus from animals to humans is low." And so on.