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Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Denmark, minks have been killed on 284 farms where COVID-19 was found. After six months, the carcasses of the animals will be dug up for disposal as commercial waste. This decision was made by the country’s parliament.
The Danish parliament voted on December 20 to unearth the corpses of all the minks killed in the country due to the coronavirus within six months. This was announced by the Danish Ministry of Food and Veterinary Medicine.
The ministry presented three options for the exhumation and destruction of nearly 4 million dead animals. Parliament chose the option that provides for excavation and subsequent disposal as commercial waste. The mink carcasses will be burned in incinerators.
According to representatives of the ministry, in six months, the minks will not pose a contagion danger for the people who will be involved in this process.
Denmark is considered the world’s largest producer of mink fur. According to Jyllands-Posten, the country produces between 12 and 13 million mink skins a year; the animals are raised on 1,139 farms.
In April, it became known about an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in mink farms in the Netherlands. In May a worker’s mink infection was confirmed. Danish authorities began killing minks in October.
On November 4, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that the entire mink population would be destroyed due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mutation that can spread between humans. The government later said: there was no legal basis for killing minks, but the situation was “so dire” that they could not wait for the corresponding law to be passed.
On November 18, minks were killed in Denmark on 284 farms where the coronavirus was found, another 25 farms are under suspicion. reported в Twitter Уthe veterinary and food board of the country. Danish Minister of Agriculture and Food, Mogens Jensen, resigned amid the scandal over the mass slaughter of animals.
On November 19, the Danish Ministry of Health announced the continued absence of new cases of human mink infection with a mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is known as Cluster 5. The ministry believes that this strain of the virus has disappeared .
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