Great apes given Covid vaccines after outbreak at San Diego zoo

In January at San Diego Zoo, nine great apes have been given an experimental Covid-19 vaccine. They received it from a company called Zoetis for use in animals after eight members of gorilla troop were tested positive. Health officers said they wanted to try their best to protect them from Covid because it's not known how it would affect other apes. In March 2020 scientists said that populations of chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans could be erased during pandemic. Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced it's open to vaccinating some animals, but first the 5 million humans in the area. I think that while Coronavirus is dangerous to animals too, the priority, as the park said, should be vaccinating people. There are ways to keep apes safe, mainly wearing masks around them. If people followed restrictions and the zoos stayed closed, the animals would be safe and they wouldn't need to be get a vaccine. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/05/san-diego-zoo-apes-covid-vaccines-outbreak