By Josh K. Elliott Global News Updated June 1, 2020
In this file photo, a monkey crosses telephone wires on a street in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
India is grappling with an incident straight out of a movie after several monkeys raided a laboratory and escaped with COVID-19-tainted blood samples in hand.
The incident happened at a medical college in Meerut, a city in the Uttar Pradesh area of northern India on Tuesday, according to officials.
“Monkeys grabbed and fled with the blood samples of four COVID-19 patients who are undergoing treatment,” Dr. S. K. Garg, a top official at the college, told Reuters. He added that it’s unclear whether the tubes of blood had been spilled.
Garg also urged calm amid fears that the monkeys might spread the coronavirus around Meerut.
“No evidence has been found that monkeys can contract the infection,” he said.
India is grappling with an incident straight out of a movie after several monkeys raided a laboratory and escaped with COVID-19-tainted blood samples in hand.
The incident happened at a medical college in Meerut, a city in the Uttar Pradesh area of northern India on Tuesday, according to officials.
“Monkeys grabbed and fled with the blood samples of four COVID-19 patients who are undergoing treatment,” Dr. S. K. Garg, a top official at the college, told Reuters. He added that it’s unclear whether the tubes of blood had been spilled.
Garg also urged calm amid fears that the monkeys might spread the coronavirus around Meerut.
“No evidence has been found that monkeys can contract the infection,” he said.
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