India News: Samples from the lions were collected and sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, which confirmed coronavirus infection.
This isn’t the first reported instance of the big cats contracting Covid. In May 2021, eight lions at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad had also tested positive for SARS COV-2.
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