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How did you spend a cozy Sunday so that winter was over?

As the cold has slowed, I hope that the Corona will also be overcome.

It has been confirmed for the first time that a companion animal is infected with Corona 19 in Korea.

It was a cat raised by a family of confirmed patients.

It appears to have been passed on to the owner,


but it is said that no case has yet

been

transmitted from

animal to human 

.



This is Han Sang-woo.



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Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun disclosed that a companion animal was infected with Corona 19 at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meeting held today (24th).



This is the first case in Korea that a companion animal has been infected with Corona 19.



[Sae-gyun Jeong/Prime Minister: In the course of an epidemiological investigation into a recent case of group infection, the quarantine authorities confirmed that a companion animal was infected with Corona 19.] The



infected companion animal was found to be a cat.



A mother and daughter visited a prayer center in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, where a recent group infection occurred, and was confirmed. One of the three cats the mother and daughter had had a positive test.



The quarantine authorities are placing weight on the possibility of human infection.



Although it is the first in Korea, 240 animal infection cases were reported worldwide last year, of which 37 were cats.



Most of them are presumed to have been infected through contact with a confirmed person.



[Son Young-rae / Head of Social Strategy Division, Central Accident Control Center: (Worldwide) cases of human infection from companion animals have not been confirmed.]



However, it

is not

possible to completely rule out the possibility of human infection through companion animals

.

Opinion.



[Park Yong-ho/Professor of Seoul National University Veterinary Medicine College: It is dangerous because the virus enters and exits (to companion animals) and does not know what form it will transform again.] The



government will sooner or later investigate and disclose the possibility of infection between humans and animals

.

I also decided to arrange.



(Video coverage: Jeong Seong-hwa, video editing: Kim Jun-hee)