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People feel the symptoms of the disease, they do not belong to the risk group according to age, said the center representative Justina Petravičienė at the press conference.
On Thursday, the coronavirus was also detected in tissues kept at a farm in the Jonava district. The virus was detected by examining samples from suddenly dead animals.
Coronavirus tissues grown in Lithuania were tested preventively when coronavirus outbreaks were detected in tissue farms in Denmark, and later in Spain, Italy, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden and Greece.
Danish authorities reported in early November that the coronavirus had mutated in tissues, raising the risk that the altered virus could be fully or partially resistant to vaccines currently in development, rendering them ineffective or only partially effective.
The head of the Jonava district tissue farm hopes that all the animals will be destroyed
After the coronavirus was detected in tissues on a farm in the Jonava, Danmink and Vilkijos ūkis district on Thursday, the head of the latter says the latter is convinced that the tens of thousands of fur animals on the farms they will not be destroyed. He also emphasizes that the Ministry of Agriculture should inform farmers about future assistance to farms in such a situation, so that new diseases are not hidden.
According to Česlovas Tallat-Kelpša, president of the Lithuanian Fur Breeders Association and director of Vilkijos ūkio, no new dead tissues have been found since Thursday, but several Danmink employees are known to be infected. In addition, part of the company’s employees are in self-isolation.
There are no infections in Vilkijos ūkis, and yesterday we did an inspection in Danmink, we found several asymptomatic, now there are four or five, one has already been diagnosed. One part is still in self-isolation, now I will not say the exact number, but with the employees a small jacket ”, said BNS. Tallat-Kelpša.
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According to him, currently all work on the farm is suspended, except for the most essential ones, which employ about 5-8 people. According to Sodra, Danmink has a total of 33 employees.
The Food and Veterinary Office announced that 169 tissues had died suddenly on the Danmink farm. Examination of samples from selected animals confirmed that they were infected with COVID-19. Later, it was learned that another 155 mink died, both at Danmink and at Vilkijos Farm. It was also decided to kill about 40 animals that had been in contact with the examined tissues and to safely destroy their carcasses.
About 60 thousand are kept in Danmink and Vilkijos ūkis. fur animals, but ch. Tallat-Kelpša says that he is convinced that destroying them all will be lost.
“I don’t think it is absurd to put the whole farm to sleep. (…) Hopefully, because it is done for human beings, they will sleep if the public authorities tell them to do it and not because something is wrong with the fabrics, but because they are afraid of man. (…) I am sure that in Lithuania it will not be like in Denmark, because it is completely absurd, I don’t think it will happen, because the danger for a person is not as great as the Danes originally imagined ”Said Č. Tallat-Kelpša.
He said he still has no guarantees on possible compensation for the damages and that the insurance is probably not valid in this case. However, Č. Tallat-Kelpša emphasizes that the ministry should clarify possible compensatory measures so that other tissue cases do not hide possible outbreaks.
“We have no guarantees, there is no such legal basis in Lithuania. There are certain diseases like African swine fever, possibly bird flu, and these diseases are certainly not on any of the lists because they were not known. Yesterday they spoke with the ministry and it is they are likely to come up with something, because if not people can hide the disease, it would not be okay, “said Vilkijos head ūkio.
According to him, the loss of a mink causes a loss of 30 euros.
Currently, more than 1.6 million are kept in 86 farms in the country. tissues.
The Ministry of Agriculture hopes that tissue farms will not hide cases of coronavirus
Following the detection of the coronavirus at a tissue farm in the Jonava district on Thursday, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) hopes that other tissue farms will not hide the outbreak if this happens.
“The Jonava district tissue farm acted with great social responsibility in reporting the case. The Ministry of Agriculture expects other farms to do the same in the event of an outbreak, ”the ministry said.
According to the report, on Thursday, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chamber of Agriculture and the Association of Fur Breeders and representatives of the farms agreed to exchange information on the situation on a regular basis. Possibilities to provide compensation to affected farms and to finance the costs of laboratory tests were also discussed.
In addition, measures to eradicate the identified outbreak, the use of dead and dead bodies, and greater monitoring and prevention were discussed.
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