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Helena Smith in Athens

Cyprus to begin treating island’s sick cats with anti-Covid pills

Domestic cat with feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) quarantined at a veterinary clinic in Nicosia in June
Domestic cat with feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) quarantined at a veterinary clinic in Nicosia in June. Photograph: Christina Assi/AFP/Getty Images

Veterinary services in Cyprus have received a first batch of anti-Covid pills, from a stockpile originally meant for humans, as efforts intensify to stop the spread of a virulent strain of feline coronavirus that has killed thousands of cats.

The island’s health ministry began discharging the treatment on 8 August – long celebrated as International Cat Day – in what is hoped will be the beginning of the end of the disease that has struck the Mediterranean country’s feline population.

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