47 goats quarantined after goatherd tests Covid +ve in Karnataka village
Kiran.Parashar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: 01.07.2020
Forty-seven goats were quarantined on Tuesday after a goatherd tested positive for Covid-19 in Godekere village in Tumakuru district, about 127km from Bengaluru.
Sources said the village in Chikkanayakanahalli taluk has around 300 houses and a population of 1,000. Two villagers, including the goatherd, tested positive recently. After this, four goats of the goat-rearer died, causing alarm in the village.
District health and veterinary officials visited the village on Tuesday and collected swab samples of the goats before putting the livestock in quarantine outside the village. The team faced huge resistance from the villagers, who suspected they had arrived to cull the goats. The officials convinced them that there is risk of the livestock getting infected by coronavirus and have to be tested.
P Manivannan, secretary of the animal husbandry department, said they will look into the matter and postmortem will be conducted on the dead goats.
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