(CNN) The novel coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people around the globe, killing more than 4,000. But it's not just humans impacted by the spread of the pandemic. Many animals in Wuhan, the Chinese city that is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, have died or are at risk of dying after residents evacuated their homes in the wake of the lockdown , animal advocates have said. An abandoned puppy rescued from a construction site in Henan province in China is examined by an animal advocate. "Estimates are impossible, but we do know that in Wuhan, for example, animal activists have assisted with animals in upwards of 1,000 apartments.

Source: CNN March 15, 2020 06:56 UTC