Thank you for the great work.
I am concerned with the lack of monitoring of SARS-Cov-2 in animals.
COVID-19 is a zoonosis and other animals, including Syrian hamster are prone to infection .
Minks from different locations have been infected with a variant containing the S69-70deletion. It has been shown that minks can infect humans… but what was the origin of this new mink associated strain?
Now a new UK variant emerges with a mutation that increase the affinity of the spike to human and murine ACE2 …
The mink associated SARS-CoV-2 variant has been found in wild minks…
This is not enough to take more seriously the One Health approach of this pandemics !? It’s a zoonosis .
Why we still don’t have monitoring plans for animals that cohabit with sars-Cov-2 positive persons ?