2 Tigers At Pittsburgh Zoo Test Positive For COVID-19

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Two tigers astatine the Pittsburgh Zoo person tested affirmative for COVID-19.

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The zoo says the tigers started displaying objective signs similar occasional coughing but person different been successful bully information and they’re expected to afloat recover.

The results of the accelerated antigen trial showed the tigers tested positive, and the zoo said it’s besides waiting connected the results of a PCR test.

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It’s apt the tigers got the microorganism from an asymptomatic employee, the zoo said.

“We are taking this concern earnestly and are continuing to supply the champion attraction imaginable to our tigers,” Dr. Jeremy Goodman, president and CEO, said successful a property release. “We bash not let immoderate of our visitors to travel wrong adjacent proximity to immoderate of our cats, truthful the hazard of transmission to our guests is precise low.”

In April, 2 of the zoo’s lionesses tested affirmative for COVID-19 and afloat recovered.

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There person been nary home fatalities of tigers that person gotten COVID-19, the zoo said.