Close-up shot of a langur sitting on a motorcycle, in Varanasi, India. An unrecognizable Indian man is visible in the background.
A troop of monkeys in India hit a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials announced on Friday.
According to Reuters, The assault happened this week when a laboratory technician was walking in the campus of a state-run medical college in Meerut, 460 km (285 miles) north of Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state.
“Monkeys seized and fled with the blood samples of four COVID-19 patients who are undergoing treatment … we had to take their blood samples again,” said Dr S. K. Garg, a top official at the college.
Authorities stated they were not transparent if the monkeys had spilt the blood samples, but people living near the leafy campus feared further spread of the virus if the monkeys carried the samples into residential areas.
Garg said it was not clear if the monkeys could contract the coronavirus if they came into contact with infected blood.
“No evidence has been found that monkeys can contract the infection,” Garg told Reuters.
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