{"id":41003,"date":"2022-01-23T22:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/hong-kong-hamster-covid-cull"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T13:41:19","slug":"surrendered-hong-kong-hamster-tests-positive-for-covid-as-cull-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41003","title":{"rendered":"Surrendered Hong Kong hamster tests positive for Covid as cull continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case is the first involving a hamster in the care of an owner following pet shop outbreak<\/p>\n<p>A hamster surrendered to Hong Kong authorities by its owners has tested positive for Covid-19 and more than 2,200 hamsters have been culled, as the city grapples to contain an outbreak of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals\">officials ordered the killing of hamsters<\/a> from dozens of pet shops after tracing a Covid-19 outbreak to a worker and asked people to surrender any of the animals bought on or after 22 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/hong-kong-hamster-covid-cull\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case is the first involving a hamster in the care of an owner following pet shop outbreakA hamster surrendered to Hong Kong authorities by its owners has tested positive for Covid-19 and more than 2,200 hamsters have been culled, as the city grappl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","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\/41003","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41003\/revisions\/41004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}