JULIE LARSEN MAHER / WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY / AFP
A tiger at New York City's Bronx Zoo has become the first known case of an animal infected by a human with COVID-19.
The four-year-old Malayan tiger, named Nadia, along with six other big cats, is believed to have been infected by an asymptomatic zoo keeper.
According to the zoo officials, the first animal started showing symptoms, including a dry cough, late last month.
"This is the first time that any of us know of anywhere in the world that a person infected the animal and the animal got sick," said Paul Calle, the chief veterinarian at the zoo.
The animals are well and are expected to recover, the official added.
The zoo has been closed to the public since March 16 amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The US Department of Homeland Security is sending "hundreds" more officers to Minnesota, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in remarks that aired on Sunday, after tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration agent.
The US military said on Saturday it carried out multiple strikes in Syria targeting ISIS as part of an operation that Washington launched in December after an attack on American personnel.
Israeli fire killed at least three Palestinians in two separate incidents across Gaza, local health authorities said, as tension rises over continued violence.
Tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis on Saturday to decry the fatal shooting of a woman by a US immigration agent, part of more than 1,000 rallies planned nationwide over the weekend against the federal government's deportation drive.
At least one person has died in Australia's southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on Sunday.
Homeland Security to send hundreds more officers to Minnesota
US military targets IS in Syria strikes
Israeli fire kills three people in Gaza, tension rises
Tens of thousands protest in Minneapolis over fatal ICE shooting
One dead in Australian bush fires
