Covid And Pets Uk

Pet owners urged to keep animals indoors during uk coronavirus lockdown the coronavirus pandemic has prompted the british veterinary association to issue a warning urging britons to.

Covid and pets uk. Advice for pet owners and livestock keepers on looking after the welfare of animals during the coronavirus covid 19 pandemic. A female siamese cat became the first pet in the uk with a confirmed case of covid 19 this week. Pet owners in the uk are being urged to get their much loved furry ones tested. Most of these infected pets showed no signs of illness at all and those that did only developed very mild symptoms.

The cat a resident of southern england was initially believed to have contracted feline herpes. And while there s a lot of information about how to protect yourself and how to keep your. The uk s chief veterinary officer has confirmed that the virus responsible for covid 19 has been detected in a pet cat in the uk. Coronavirus covid 19 continues to dominate headlines as the number of cases continue to rise in the uk.

All of them are thought to have caught the virus from a human because they has all. Since covid 19 first emerged in dec 2019 it s infected over 16 million humans but only around 15 pets have tested positive for it despite many of us living in close contact with our pets. Officials in believe the cat which wasn t identified but lived in england caught the. This advice applies to england only.

A pet cat has been infected with coronavirus in the first known case of its kind in the uk. At least 3 048 people infected with the sars cov 2 virus have died and pet. The infection was confirmed following tests at the animal and. The covid 19 virus was detected in the animal last wednesday following tests by the animal and plant.