“A suspected case of animal-to-human COVID-19 transmission in Hong Kong”

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Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on the 18th that the first suspected case of animal-to-human transmission of COVID-19 was reported in Hong Kong.

Recently, a 23-year-old clerk who works at a pet store in Causeway Bay that sells hamsters and other rodents was infected with the delta mutation, and the source of infection is unclear.

It has been three months since the Hong Kong community has confirmed the delta mutation, and authorities are investigating, pointing out that the clerk, who had not been abroad, was infected with the delta mutation as a ‘strange case’.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported, citing a source, that “authorities have confirmed that several hamsters at the pet store are infected with Corona 19 and are conducting further investigations.”

The source said, “As a result of analyzing the gene sequence of the clerk’s virus, it was confirmed that the genotype is the same as that prevalent in Europe and Pakistan. There is a possibility that the virus may have been transmitted from the store to the clerk,” he said.

Previously, DNA expert Gilman Siu, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, analyzed the gene sequencing of the clerk on a public broadcaster in Hong Kong and said that there were no recent cases similar to those who were infected. said it mightn’t.

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