The communities in China have ordered their residents to prevent keeping pets – or risk getting them culled – because fear that the animals also will receive the new coronavirus, that has killed 213 in under one month.

Residential committees, village officials and corporations from various provinces and municipalities issued strict order to residents after receiving instructions from their superiors to affect the epidemic.

A village in Hebei – urged all households to “take care of their pets” within five days, or the officials would ‘handle’ them altogether, the Mail Online reports

The city of Anshan in Liaoning Province has ordered all pet markets to temporarily suspend trading, and its police forces to ‘strictly restrict’ residents from walking their pet dogs publicly in an urgent notice released in the week .

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It also banned the locals from flying their pigeons and demanded all stray wild pigeons be culled because the outbreak accelerated.

While another agency in Shaanxi residential committee instructed people to ‘consider the general situation’ and eliminate their cats and dogs immediately, it’s been reported.

Similar orders have appeared in provinces and municipalities across the country, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Wuhan and Shanghai, consistent with animal welfare organisation Humane Society International.

Dog lovers are buying face masks for his or her pets after China’s top expert for infectious diseases warned that their pooches could catch the deadly virus.

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