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When tissues infected with the mutated pandemic coronavirus were found in fur farms, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in early November that between 15 and 17 million animals would have to be euthanized. tissues grown in the country.
Until then, Denmark was the world’s largest exporter of cloth skins.
Once the devastation had already begun, the order to kill all the tissues was challenged in court. When the court ruled that the decree had no legal basis, the government plunged into a political crisis that led to the resignation of the agriculture minister.
Reuters / Scanpix Photo / Mette Frederiksen at a tissue farm
It was later learned that the dead mink had been buried shallowly in a military training ground in the western municipality of Holstebro, so as food fell, they began to come out of the subsoil due to accumulated gas. In addition, concerns have been raised about high contamination with nitrogen and phosphorus compounds.
New Danish agriculture minister Rasmus Prehn said on Friday that he supported the idea of digging up the buried tissues and burning them, but added that such a move would require approval from the country’s environmental agency.
“From the first day I found out, I wanted to get rid of the fabrics and burn them,” the minister told TV2.
Most lawmakers in the Danish Parliament, where the idea has been debated, support this solution.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Frederiksen tearfully apologized for the mismanagement of the crisis during a visit to one of the affected fabric producers.
“It is not difficult for me to apologize for what happened because mistakes were made,” Frederiksen told TV2.
The drastic decision to destroy millions of fur animals was made out of fear that a new strain of the virus could reduce the effectiveness of future COVID-19 vaccines.
Last week, the Ministry of Health announced that the potential threat to the effectiveness of the human vaccine against COVID-19 had “most likely eliminated” without identifying more cases of infection by the mutated virus.
According to the latest figures, more than 10 million tonnes have been destroyed in Denmark. tissues.
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