In seven municipalities, bars, restaurants and covered sports grounds will be closed for four weeks. There will be no public transport and the possibility of leaving or coming to these municipalities will be limited. It will not be forbidden, but people will be advised not to do so.
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“I think it will be necessary to isolate the area north of the Limfjorden from the rest of the country. Anything else means leaving the barn door open and. so the horses could run away, “said virologist Allan Randrup Thomsen. He said it was necessary to intervene immediately before the new mutation spreads. It is also necessary to prevent transmission between people
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Kåre Mølbak, director of the State Serum Institute, said that in northern Jutland, half of people diagnosed with the new coronavirus became infected with a mutation known from minks. However, only nine percent of infected people had a mutation in the body called cluster 5, which reduces the effectiveness of antibodies in the body. Still, it’s more than originally thought.
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Spreading the cluster 5 mutation could also reduce the effectiveness of a possible coronavirus vaccine.
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In the north of the Jutland peninsula, the disease is spreading, the reproduction number is higher than one.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that minks serve the virus well as a reservoir. He therefore agrees with the discharge of the minks. “Of course, there is a risk that the mink population could somehow contribute to the transmission of the virus to humans, which would then spread from person to person,” said Catherine Smallwood of the WHO Crisis Bureau in Europe.
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Hans Kluge, director of the WHO branch for Europe, praised Denmark for its determination and courage to unload 17 million minks, which will have a major economic impact.
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