{"id":15421,"date":"2020-03-05T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/hong-kong-warns-residents-not-to-kiss-pets-after-dog-contracts-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:54:14","slug":"hong-kong-warns-residents-not-to-kiss-pets-after-dog-contracts-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15421","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong warns residents not to kiss pets after dog contracts coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pomeranian tested a \u2018weak positive\u2019 for virus after owner was infected, authorities say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/05\/coronavirus-live-updates-italy-germany-pandemic-europe-uk-us-australia-india-update-latest-news\">Coronavirus: latest developments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong authorities have warned people to avoid kissing their pets, but also to not panic and abandon them after a dog repeatedly tested \u201cweak positive\u201d for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said experts unanimously agreed the results suggested the dog had \u201ca low-level of infection and it is likely to be a case of human-to-animal transmission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/hong-kong-warns-residents-not-to-kiss-pets-after-dog-contracts-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pomeranian tested a \u2018weak positive\u2019 for virus after owner was infected, authorities sayCoronavirus: latest developmentsHong Kong authorities have warned people to avoid kissing their pets, but also to not panic and abandon them after a dog repeatedly t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,1069,48,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}