Pakistani Zoo: White tiger cub dies due to COVID-19

Officials at a Pakistani zoo said that two white tiger cubs died in the park last month, apparently due to their COVID-19 disease.

The two-year-olds, who were 11 weeks old, died at the Lahore Zoo on January 30, four days after they began treatment, of what park officials thought was the feline viral plague, a disease that officials said is common in Pakistan and attacks the immune system of cats.

But the autopsy proved that the lungs of the two cubs were severely damaged and that they were suffering from severe infection, and pathologists concluded that they had died due to Covid-19 disease.

Although no PCR test has been conducted to detect infection with the Coronavirus, the park's deputy director Kiran Salim told Reuters that the park believes that the shiblin were victims of the pandemic that killed 12,256 people in Pakistan.

"After their deaths, the park administration conducted tests for all officials, and it was discovered that six of them were infected with the virus, and one of them was dealing with the two cubs," he added.

"This reinforces the autopsy results that the cubs were most likely infected with the virus from the person who is caring for and feeding them," he added.

And zoos in Pakistan are angered by animal rights activists who say hundreds of them are being spent due to poor conditions and neglect in these parks.

And in December, a pair of brown Himalayan bears was transferred from the Islamabad Zoo to a reserve in Jordan.

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