![]() Schools have been closed, and playgrounds shut, restaurants closed by 6 p.m. Hong Kong's "zero-COVID strategy" has meant stringent lockdowns during the pandemic. "But we have to protect public health and animal health. "We don't want to cull all the animals," Thomas Sit, assistant director of Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation department, told the New York Times. Hong Kong's agriculture department reports some guinea pigs, rabbits and chinchillas have been exterminated, too. More than 2200 hamsters from dozens of pet shops have been euthanized so far. ![]() Fearing that pets would fuel a larger outbreak, Hong Kong authorities told citizens to surrender all hamsters that were purchased after December 22nd, for what they called "humane dispatch." The small, twitchy-nosed fuzzballs fit well as pets in a bustling city of apartment dwellers.īut: someone who works at a pet shop there, one customer, and 11 hamsters tested positive for COVID. A fluffy new symbol of dissidence has surfaced in Hong Kong: the hamster.
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