Chinese city kills three cats after they test positive for coronavirus

Security guards in China (File/Ng Han Guan/AP)

A city in northern China has killed three house cats after they tested positive for Covid-19, according to a local media report.

The authorities in Harbin said the action was taken because there was no available treatment for animals with the disease and they would have endangered their owner and other residents of the apartment complex in which they lived, Beijing News online said.