Credit: ©WCS NEW YORK - Officials at the Bronx Zoo have announced that a total of eight lions and tigers have tested positive for COVID-19.
On April 5, 2020, the zoo reported that a four-year-old female Malayan tiger had tested positive and three other tigers and three African lions were showing similar symptoms.
Samples for testing from the tiger, Nadia, were collected from her nose, throat, and respiratory tract while she was under anesthesia and it confirmed she had the coronavirus.
The zoo now says that the three other tigers in Tiger Mountain and the three African lions that exhibited a cough have also tested positive for the coronavirus. >MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE The testing was done by using a fecal sample test that did not require