A pangolin was forced to take a COVID-19 test today (May 11) in northeastern India after it was recovered from the home of a smuggler who had tested positive.

Footage showed medical officials administering nasal swabs to the 8-kilo creature.

District Forest Officials also ordered the animal into quarantine so that it can be further examined prior to release.

The pangolin was found after raiding the home of an alleged smuggler in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha state.

Pangolins are threatened by poaching for their meat and scales and are the most trafficked mammals in the world.

An 8 KG pangolin was made to undergo covid test after it was recovered from the house of a smuggler who tested positive for the virus.

The police seized the 8KG pangolin after raiding the Smugglers house in Gohirapal village of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha eastern India.

A case was registered & the DFO gave the orders to test the pangolin after the smuggler was tested positive for the deadly covid.

The DFO ( Distric Forest Officials) further ordered the pangolin to be isolated for study about the virus on animal.if it tested positive else it is to be relased jn the wild if tested negative.

The video shows a team of medical officials taking swabs from the animal to send it for a covid test.

This js the first case in India where an animal was made to undergo covid test that was captured in camera.