Sri Lanka Seeks Indian Assist To Deal with Covid-Hit Lion
Thor have been experiencing respiring difficulties and refused meals. (Representational)
Colombo:
Sri Lanka’s major zoo on Friday stated it was once in quest of Indian assist to regard a lion that examined certain for Covid-19 — the primary animal at the island identified to be inflamed.
The Division of Nationwide Zoological Gardens stated it was once consulting vets on the Central Zoo Authority of India to regard 11-year-old Thor, a lion talented via Seoul’s zoo in 2013.
“We’re in quest of steering from the Central Zoo Authority in treating Thor,” Director Normal Ishini Wickremesinghe stated in a commentary.
Thor have been experiencing respiring difficulties and refused meals, prompting government on the Dehiwala Zoo, close to the Sri Lankan capital, to check it for coronavirus.
Wickremesinghe stated a number of PCR exams had been performed to verify that the lion had gotten smaller the virus after an preliminary antigen check outcome was once unfavourable.
Officers stated Thor was once receiving oxygen remedy and 4 different lions on the zoo have been remoted. Their keepers had been despatched to quarantine.
In India a minimum of two lions have reportedly died of Covid-19 this month — the primary being a nine-year-old lioness at a Tamil Nadu zoo.
Government there have additionally examined dozens of elephants for the virus at a woodland reserve.
Sri Lanka has banned travellers from India to stop a extra virulent pressure of Covid-19 getting into the country because it battles a 3rd wave of infections.
A minimum of 2,425 other people have died within the nation and greater than 233,000 had been inflamed, with the island these days below a month-long lockdown.
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