On Monday, July 27, 2020, Newsweek reported that a pet cat was diagnosed with the coronavirus in the UK. While this cat may be the first British cat to come down with the virus, it is only part of the much smaller, but still global, kitty pandemic. In April, the first two American cats suffering from COVID 19 came to the attention of The Washington Post. They lived separately with one inhabiting a house belonging to a coronavirus-positive person and the other in one apparently without, which indicates it may have contracted the virus from elsewhere. Other cats have come down with the virus in Belgium and others in Hong Kong, Spain, Germany, France, and Switzerland.