COVID-19: Two lions test positive in India
Published 8 May 2021
In the midst of the Covid-19 upsurge in India, two lions at a safari park have been tested positive for the virus.
India has experienced an upsurge in the coronavirus pandemic. Last Wednesday, the country recorded up to 3,780 Covid-19 deaths, being the highest single-day death toll.
Hospitals in India are also struggling to meet up with the excessive increase of Covid-19 patients.
So far, animals have also been affected by the virus as two lions at the safari park tested positive for the virus.
According to officials at Etawah Safari Park in the Indian State Uttar Pradesh, both the lions were discovered to have high temperature and their samples were sent for testing, CNN reported.
Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter s College, Oxford. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where she now holds a Visiting Professorship. Before that she was a University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Lavanya holds an LLM from Yale, a DPhil and BCL from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar, and a B.A.LL.B. (Honours) from National Law School, Bangalore, where she graduated at the top of her class with several gold medals.
8 Asiatic lions in Hyderabad tested SARS-Cov2 positive
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NEW DELHI, May 4, 2021 (BSS) – Eight Asiatic lions at Nehru Zoological Park (NZP) in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have been tested positive for SARS-CoV2 virus although they were “recovering well” after treatment.
The lions were diagnosed SARS-Cov2 positive following analysis of samples on April 24 when they showed signs of respiratory distress, sources from the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said here today.
The analysis of the samples revealed that the infection was not caused by any variant of concern. “All the eight lions have responded well to the treatment and recovering. They are behaving normally and eating well,” the ministry sources said.
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