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Seven counties in northern Denmark are under strict quarantine after a mutation in the coronavirus infecting humans was detected in the local mink population, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Thursday.
Bars, restaurants and schools in affected counties will be closed and public transportation will be stopped. And people were told not to leave the area or travel there. The measure will remain in effect until December 3 for now.
Denmark has decided to euthanize minks raised for their fur to prevent the spread of the new strain of the virus, which authorities say may be even more resistant to future vaccines.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mink may provide an ideal medium for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a mutated strain that has so far infected a dozen people in Denmark.
Of course, there is a risk that this mink population contributes in some way to the spread of the mink virus to humans and then from human to human. said Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer at the WHO Copenhagen office.
Hans Kluge, director of the European organization the World Health Organization (WHO), said Denmark had shown “determination and courage” in deciding to kill its population of 17 million minks, which has “huge economic implications.”
The Danish Miners Breeders Association estimates that the move could cost the state more than $ 800 million (244 billion guilders). It was stressed that this could also be a pardon for the country’s fur industry. According to the Denmark Bureau of Statistics, around 4,000 people were employed in the industry last year, which exported $ 800 million worth of 24.5 million hides.
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