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First dog to catch coronavirus dies after being sent home from quarantine

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A poor pooch which was the first found with coronavirus has died after being released from quarantine and sent home. The South China Morning Post reports that the dog had tested "weak positive" for coronavirus in five nasal and oral tests last month but then tested negative on March 12 and 13.

The dog, a Pomeranian, was aged 17 and owned by someone who caught the killer virus in Hong Kong. The pooch's owner Yvonne Chow Hau Yee had taken her dog to a vet in the Happy Valley area of Hong Kong after she test positive for the strain.

It had been in quarantine since February 26, but after it died the city’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said no antibodies specific to the coronavirus were found in its system but it

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