Europe tries to shut down new coronavirus strain from Danish mink farms

Sumary of Europe tries to shut down new coronavirus strain from Danish mink farms:

• Minks at farmer Stig Sørensen’s estate where all minks must be culled due to a government order on November 7, 2020 in Bording, Denmark..
• It comes after a warning from Denmark’s national authority for the control of infectious disease, the State Serum Institute, that if the mutant virus were to spread internationally it could have potentially “serious consequences”.
• More than a quarter of a million people in northern Denmark went into lockdown on Friday, with citizens urged to get tested after Covid-19 infections were reported among the mink population in that region..
• Freight drivers who have been in or travelled through Denmark in the last 14 days, and who are not residents of the U.K., will now be refused entry to Britain..
• The Irish government has said people should restrict their movements for 14 days after entering the country from Denmark, even if they are visiting for an “essential”.
• and ordered the country’s mink farms to cull all 15 million minks in a move designed to reduce the risk of the animals re-transmitting the strain of the coronavirus to humans..
• Mink farm owner Holger Rønnow in his farm, where he is forced by the Government to mass cull all minks on November 6, 2020 in Herning, Denmark..
• Data from animal rights group Humane Society International puts Denmark as the world’s second-largest exporter of mink fur, behind China..
• Since June, 214 human cases of Covid-19 have been identified in Denmark with variants associated with the farmed minks, the WHO said, including 12 cases with a unique variant, reported on Nov..
• All of these 12 cases were found to have originated in North Jutland, Denmark, and the people infected ranged in age from 7 to 79-years-old….

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From CNBC News - November 9, 2020May 9, 2021