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Denmark to cull up to 1-million mink as coronavirus found at breeding farms

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Fresh cases have been registered at 41 mink farms and another 20 are believed to be affected

A worker cleans a container at a mink farm in De Mortel, the Netherlands, June 9 2020. Picture: REUTERS/PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUS

The Nordic country is the world’s largest producer of mink and had previously culled animals on farms hit by infections, but outbreaks have persisted. In May, Spain ordered the culling of all 93,000 mink at a farm to prevent human contagion after finding that most of the mink there were infected with the coronavirus.

 

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