Millions of minks have been killed since June because they can pass the coronavirus to people. But fears of a mutated strain are overblown.
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Nov 06 2020 at 4:25 PM GMT
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- Danish government officials and scientists announced Wednesday that they'd identified a mutated strain of the new coronavirus in minks.
- The animals passed the strain to a dozen people, they said.
- More than 280,000 Danes in northern Denmark, where the strain was found, went into lockdown Friday.
- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has ordered armed forces to cull every mink in Denmark " up to 17 million across more than 1,100 fur farms.
- It's the latest and largest in a series of mink cull.
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- Published Nov 6, 2020 4:25 PM GMT