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Due to a coronavirus mutation, millions of minks were euthanized on 284 fur farms in Denmark in November. Now the Danish government wants to unearth and burn four million corpses again.
As the government announced on Sunday, this should prevent contamination of nearby groundwater and lakes. Exhumation is said to begin in six months if a risk of infection can be ruled out.
The Danish government decided in November to kill more than 15 million cultivated minerals to prevent the spread of a mutated, human-transmissible form of Sars-CoV-2. Many of the animals were buried in two mass graves at military installations near Holstebro and Karup in western Denmark. However, the government soon had to admit that the decomposition process could release large amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen into the soil.
However, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, there is no imminent risk of contamination of the groundwater and nearby lakes. Therefore, the mink could remain in the controversial mass graves until May.
The Copenhagen government announced in mid-November that the so-called group 5 mutation had been eradicated. Experts had feared that this variant of the coronavirus could affect the effectiveness of vaccines in humans. On Monday, a law will be passed in Denmark that bans the keeping of minks until 2022.
