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The Danish government decided to execute up to 17 million mink animals, after it was found that the animal was infected with a mutated virus of the Corona virus, and the possibility of its transmission to humans from farms that raise this animal.
On Friday, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, considered that the new strain of the virus “threatens the efficacy” of any new vaccine that is developed in the future to deal with Corona.
Frederiksen said: “The virus mutated in the mink and then the virus passed to humans. We have a great responsibility to our people, but with the mutation that has been discovered, we have a greater responsibility to the rest of the world.”
He added that “the process of getting rid of these animals must be carried out as soon as possible, due to the great danger that this phenomenon represents, and to contain this boom”, highlighting that they made the decision with great sadness.
Denmark is the world’s largest producer of mink, with approximately 1,200 farms.
“Sacrificing the herd now as a precautionary measure was the right decision,” wrote Christian Sohn, professor of veterinary medicine and wildlife medicine at the Danish University of Aarhus, calling on China, Denmark and Poland to provide support to expand the immediate ban. and full of mink production.
The results were based on what was reported by the Danish Institute for Infectious Diseases, the presence of infection outbreaks in many mink farms across the country, and were reported to the World Health Organization and the European Center for Control and Control. Disease Prevention.
In the first comment in this regard, the World Health Organization confirmed on Saturday that at least six countries have registered a new mutation of the Corona virus associated with mink animals, specifically Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, the United States and Denmark, which it was the first country to announce the new outbreak of the epidemic.
The organization confirmed that recent studies revealed no tangible changes in the Corona strains that mink infected in Denmark, indicating that the problem needs evidence.
Britain announced that all non-British visitors, or resident travelers who were or transited through Denmark during the past fourteen days, will not be allowed to enter Britain.
Britain indicated today, Saturday, that the ban will be reviewed after a week, with growing fears of the spread of the Corona virus in Danish mink farms.
This new increase in the virus appeared, amid the tightening of new measures such as curfews, closures of restaurants and cafes, and reduction of official working hours, that many Arab and European countries have taken to contain the Corona virus.
This arises from a great fear of the severity of the second wave of the virus, which would have worse effects on the world economy and the health sector.
