Claim: You cannot catch Covid-19 from your pets.
Fact-check: The RSPCA has said that they are worried people will abandon pets because the economic effects of Covid-19 - Full Fact
Verdict: there is currently no known evidence of covid-19 being transmitted from pets to humans.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-08-07T00:00:00