Worried Peruvians have been urged to stop killing bats after 200 of the flying mammals were saved from being to death by people believing them to be spreading the coronavirus. "We must not distort the situation due to the pandemic.
Bats are not our enemies," the National Service of Wild Forests and Fauna said in a statement on Wednesday. SERFOR called for calm after locals in Culden, in the northern Cajamarca region, attacked bats with fire. "The attackers attacked the mammals because they thought they were spreading the coronavirus," said the agency.