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Cats can infect other cats with virus that causes COVID-19
-Cats in lab study showed no symptoms, still no evidence of pets spreading COVID-19 to humans-

Transmission of SARS-CoV-1 in Domestic Cats.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). on May 13, 2020. DOI:10.1056/NEJMc2013400
 
Peter J. Halfmann, Masato Hatta, Shiho Chiba, Tadashi Maemura, Shufang Fan, Makoto Takeda, Noriko Kinoshita, Shin-ichiro Hattori, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Masaki Imai, Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
 
Three cats infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 spread the virus to three other cats in a lab study published in The New England Journal of Medicine by a research team working in Tokyo, Japan, and Wisconsin, USA. The research team emphasizes that there is no evidence of the COVID-19 virus transmitting from cats to humans. Researchers state that it is much more likely that humans are giving the virus to their pets, rather than pets causing humans to become sick.

Researchers state that the evidence that humans can spread the virus to cats and that cats can spread the virus to other cats demonstrates a strong need to understand more details about pets’ potential role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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