6 countries report coronavirus on mink farms, WHO says

7 November 2020, 1:24 pm

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Denmark and the United States are among six countries that have reported new coronavirus cases linked to mink farms, the World Health Organization says.

Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden are the other nations to have discovered SARS-CoV-2 in minks, WHO says in a statement.

Denmark has imposed strict measures on the north of the country after warning that a mutation of the virus had jumped from minks to humans and infected 12 people.

Copenhagen has warned the mutation could threaten the effectiveness of any future vaccine and has ordered the slaughter of all the estimated 15-17 million minks in the country.

— AFP