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(CNN) --
A video of a dog beaten to death by COVID-19 prevention workers in Pudong, Shanghai went viral on the Chinese social network Weibo on Wednesday.
The video, recorded by a resident of a resort called Xinghai Jiayuan, shows a covid-19 prevention worker hitting a corgi dog three times with a shovel.
The dog died at the scene.
In two photos posted online, the corgi is seen running after a transfer bus that is taking its owner to an isolation center.
In another photo, you can see how his body is being carried away in a yellow plastic bag.
The video and photos have been forwarded and deleted by various users.
CNN cannot identify the original author of the video.
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The Xinghai Jiayuan Residential Committee, which oversees COVID-19 prevention efforts, acknowledged the incident in an interview with local media
outlet Feidian on
Thursday.
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In the interview, a staff member from Xinghai Jiayuan explained the reason why the dog was killed: "Because the owner of the corgi got covid-19, and people are afraid of bacteria and transmission. We haven't thought about it." good. Our manager told the owner that he would be compensated later."
CNN made multiple calls to the residence committee.
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Although reports of pet killing for covid-19 prevention are isolated and rare, the dog is not the first pet that has been killed by prevention workers.
Local government officials in Huizhou, Guangdong province, and Shangrao, Jiangxi province, have suspended their staff for killing pets.
China's National Health Commission has stated that so far there is no evidence that people have caught COVID-19 from pets.
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Shanghai registers more than 20,000 cases of covid-19
Shanghai registered 21,222 new cases transmitted by a local contagion on Thursday, according to the National Health Commission (NHC).
With this Thursday's figure, Shanghai exceeds 130,000 cases in total since the last outbreak began in March.
A total of 24,101 cases were recorded across China.
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According to Wu Qianyu, an official with the Shanghai health department, 69% of patients are between 18 and 60 years old.
The youngest patient is 10 days old, while the oldest recorded so far is 98 years old.
The Shanghai outbreak has spread to nearby cities including Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang province.
Some nearby cities have been locked down.
Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, began a four-day lockdown on April 7.
In Haining, Zhejiang, the city lockdown began on April 4.
Many banks, including Bank of China, China Construction Bank (CCB), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Agricultural Bank of China, announced that they will allow late mortgage payments for affected people. by the outbreak, according to state media outlet
Xinhua
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