Hong Kong orders the culling of thousands of hamsters, closes shops selling them and sends more than 100 pet shop visitors into quarantine as part of its increasingly fervent quest to eliminate the virus trib.al/qGzQvjd
The escalation came after nearly a dozen hamsters imported from the Netherlands and sold at a local pet store in Hong Kong were found to be infected with delta, a virulent Covid-19 variant that hadn’t been detected in the city for months trib.al/Ch761Ec
All pet shops selling hamsters in Hong Kong — in total 34 — were ordered to shut down immediately pending further testing and cleaning, while people who recently bought hamsters were to turn the animals over to authorities for culling trib.al/GTNosYK 
About 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, chinchillas and rabbits, will be culled in Hong Kong while importation of such creatures has been suspended after health officials said they may be responsible for infecting a pet shop worker with Covid-19. trib.al/DePNkUL
LATEST: Hong Kong’s decision to kill thousands of hamsters, rabbits and chinchillas on the never previously seen risk that they could spread Covid to humans is an overreaction, experts say trib.al/fxHEVyf
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