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Terrifying scenes are taking place in Denmark. Breeders and veterinary service employees roam the farms in white protective suits, killing hundreds, sometimes thousands, of minks. The excavators dig the corpses in pits and bury them several meters underground.
In Denmark between 15 and 17 million animals must be slaughtered. As fast as possible. By order of the government.
The reason is a mutation of the coronavirus, which is transmitted from minks to humans. In recent weeks, the mutation has been found in at least twelve people in North Jutland.
No legal basis
The Danish government fears that the mutated virus could spread further, including abroad. And soon a vaccine would be useless with this new version of the coronavirus. So he decided to “cull all mink populations.”
Now it turns out that the request is not legal at all. There is apparently no legal basis for asking mink farmers outside the risk zone, ie North Jutland, to kill their minks. Danish Food Minister Mogens Jensen admits it to TV2. “We made a mistake,” he says. But the risk of spreading the mutation still exists: the breeders must continue with the slaughter.
Mutation discovered in other countries
The government now wants to create the necessary legal basis in an expedited process. In North Jutland, all regions have been cordoned off and local traffic restricted. The government announced that mink producers would be compensated.
In addition to Denmark, the mink mutation was also found in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. (ha)
