Covid-19 could end mink farming

There are concerns the animals could infect humans with a new coronavirus strain

The Danish government decided to cull the country’s entire mink population (as many as 17m, on about 1,200 farms).

Mink has become the only farmed animal victim of Covid-19, with the Danish government proposing to ban mink farming until December 2021 and to allow about 15 million minks to be killed.

It followed the World Health Organization opening an investigation of mink farming worldwide, because of concerns that the animals could infect humans with a new coronavirus strain.