Outrage Across Social Media As Video Surfaces Of Chinese Healthcare Worker Beating Dog To Death Over Fear It May Spread COVID

A Chinese health care worker has sparked outrage after being filmed beating a helpless dog to death over unfounded fears it could spread COVID-19.

The disturbing video, verified by Agence France-Presse, shows the worker completely covered in a hazmat suit as the corgi wanders in an otherwise deserted Shanghai street amid draconian lockdowns.

The clip, which has gone viral on Chinese social media, ends with the corgi lying in a pool of blood on the side of the road as the health care worker leans on a 4-foot-high stick used in the culling.

The corgi had been left on the street because its owners had been forced into a quarantine facility and feared it would starve if left alone, according to online messages seen by the Telegraph.

“We hoped to let him outside to be like a stray dog. We didn’t want him to starve to death,” the dog’s owner said.

“We never expected that he would be beaten to death.”