animals. all covid does. we could not ever be eliminated. you can t get to covid zero matter how many vaccination shots you take. tonight we are out of time, tomorrow we will be back at 8:0. sean: no hamsters for me. all right, tucker. they re like baby mice. i never particularly liked them. thank you. welcome to hannity. tonight the democratic party their allies and the mop and th media our in an understated chaos. whole numbers imploding by the struggling in every single way, many our in a state of despair, some are predictably swearing the political opponents as racist, others in congress are throwing and the towel and retiring en masse.
22nd, to turn their pet over to officials to have it killed. this after officials say an employee at a pet store tested positive for covid this week, and then officials found that at least 11 hamsters in the shop also tested positive, and they re worried that hamsters could be a vector of covid transmission in a city where the government is trying to impose zero covid, zero-covid policy. the plans to call some 2,000 pet hamsters have activists protesting online, signing petitions, saying, this is a cruel policy. back to you, christine and laura. that is very interesting reporting. ivan and the rest of our team, thank you so much for all of that global reporting. when it comes to covid, a divided u.s. supreme court, just like us, there s been a notable physical absence on the bench recently as justice sonya sotomayor has been hearing oral argument from her chambers instead of in-person with the
original omicron case. omicron is in at least nine city ace cross china, so these winter olympics are going to be taking place as parts of the country are in war-time mode to try and stamp out the virus. but organizers are still betting that they can pull this off successfully by keeping olympic participants completely separate from the rest of the population and under extreme covid rules. now, meanwhile, in hong kong, they are also doubling down on its zero covid strategy. they say they will euthanize some 2,000 small animals and ban imports of small animals. they are asking all pet shops, required, these pet shots selling hamsters, to hand over the hamsters for them to be killed. these are extreme measures in response to what? they re in response to a worker at a shop testing positive for the delta variant and around a dozen hamsters testing positive as well. this is also important to mention here. health authorities say that the risk of transmission from animals to humans is low.
announced it s going to kill thousands of hamsters because they suspect that one unnamed hamster may have given covid to a twenty five year old worker at a pet shop is quite a large amount of animals. tensas tested with positive results and with the shop keepers, which has a more frequent exposure to the hamster in devilment. we cannot exclude the possibility that the shop knew this was in fact was actually infected from the the hamsters. so to be clear is a scientific matter. there is no evidence that hamster is transmit covid to human beings. nevertheless,he to be on the sie of safety, the chinese controlled government of hong announced that all al the hamsters must die and then anyone who visited this particular hamster store this monthtsts must be quaranti. butyo you know what is true is