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After a negative corona test, two cats were able to leave the quarantine in the Hamburg animal shelter on Saturday.

The Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Greifswald has confirmed that the two cats have survived the infection, said the senior veterinarian Urte Inkmann.

The Harburg district office then lifted the quarantine.

The animals belonged to a woman from Hamburg who died after a coronavirus infection, as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture announced after the first positive test.

So far, a total of five corona cases in cats and two in dogs have been reported in Germany, it said.

However, there was no evidence that humans were infected with Sars-CoV-2 in dogs and cats.

The most important farm animals such as pigs and chickens cannot be infected.

According to Inkmann, the two Hamburg cats only had a slight cold.

One of the two, a red tabby animal, looks very good now.

His brown-black tabby fellow sufferer may still have a common cat disease that can occur in animals between the ages of six and ten years.

A blood test should provide clarity.

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The two neutered tomcats have now moved to the mediation area of ​​the animal shelter and are looking for a new home.

Because their original names could no longer be found out, they were baptized Lolek and Bolek.

"They are really cute," said Inkmann.

You would have endured all examinations including swabs and disinfectant smell without anesthesia.

The number of new corona infections in Hamburg has meanwhile increased on Saturday compared to Friday.

However, the incidence value has fallen back below 80.

The health authority recorded 203 new corona infections.

That was 15 more than on Friday.

On Saturday last week, the number was 277.

The seven-day incidence decreased again after five days with increasing value and was now 77.6.

On Friday this value was 81.5, exactly one week ago it was 69.5.

According to Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD), around a third of the diseases are now due to the so-called British mutation of the coronavirus, and the trend is rising.

According to the RKI, the number of people who died from or with the virus rose by 6 to 1263. According to the authorities, 282 Covid-19 patients were treated as inpatients in Hamburg hospitals as of Friday, including 81 in intensive care units.