{"id":40786,"date":"2022-01-18T19:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals"},"modified":"2022-01-18T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:27:50","slug":"hong-kong-to-cull-thousands-of-hamsters-after-covid-found-on-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40786","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to cull thousands of hamsters after Covid found on 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities call for animals to be surrendered for \u2018disposal\u2019 after traces of virus detected at pet shop<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong has ordered thousands of hamsters be surrendered for \u201cdisposal\u201d after traces of Covid-19 were found on 11 animals in a pet shop.<\/p>\n<p>The order includes pets that were bought days before Christmas be handed over, with a warning not to \u201ckiss or abandon them on the street\u201d as Hong Kong and mainland China attempt to sustain a zero Covid strategy, attempting to suppress all outbreaks internally while maintaining tight border controls with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities call for animals to be surrendered for \u2018disposal\u2019 after traces of virus detected at pet shopCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has ordered thousands of hamsters be surrendered for \u201cdisposal\u201d after traces o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[265,41,1066,48,78,284,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-life-and-style","category-pets","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\/40786","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786\/revisions\/40802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}