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Dog in Hong Kong tests positive for coronavirus

By Spencer Neale
Published February 28, 2020 7:02pm ET
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Dog in Hong Kong tests positive for coronavirus
A resident wearing mask walks her dogs in Beijing, China on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. | (Ng Han Guan/AP)

A dog in Hong Kong is being quarantined after testing positive for ‘low levels’ of the COVID-19 virus.

The World Health Organization announced on Friday that a Pomeranian belonging to a 60-year-old woman who developed symptoms of the coronavirus last week also caught the illness and was being isolated by Chinese officials.

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