Care facility for pets of quarantined owners draws its shutters in Shanghai

Shanghai's first pet care center in downtown that took care of pets whose owners had to be quarantined amid the current wave of COVID-19 epidemic was closed on Thursday.

All pets cared for by the center have returned home safely, said Zhai Jiang, the person in charge of the site.

Opened on May 7 by the Laoximen subdistrict, the Shanghai Sansan Pet Caring Volunteer Association and a local pet hospital, the center had taken care of 40 dogs and 15 cats. The center was operated by eight volunteers.