COPENHAGEN, KOMPAS.com – Millions of carcasses cerpelai will be excavated from mass graves and burned in a rubbish incinerator in Denmark after some resurface.
“The reappearance of the mink carcass sparked complaints from residents about possible health and environmental risks,” the country’s government said. Daily Mail on Sunday (20/12/2020).
The entire Danish herd of about 17 million minks is usually used as raw material for the high-end fashion industry. But they were culled in early November, after hundreds of farms suffered from the coronavirus outbreak.
Authorities also found new variant the corona virus mutated among the people there.
Earlier, amid concerns that the virus mutation would render a vaccine developed to fight the native virus useless, Denmark ordered all minks to be destroyed.
But of the four million minks that were hastily buried, in the military areas of western Denmark, some are starting to emerge from the sandy soil. It is known, gases from the decomposition process push the mink out of the ground.
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Thomas Kristensen of the National Police told the broadcaster DR, soil type also influences the incidence. The sandy soil of West Jutland is said to be not heavy enough to support a mink.
Authorities claim there is no risk of the graves spreading the coronavirus. But residents complained about the risk of contaminating drinking water and the bathing lake which is less than 200 meters from a mass grave.
The government was forced to admit that the mass graves, which were dug in November at military sites near Holstebro and Karup, were an environmental hazard.
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“Their proposal has received support in parliament to dig back the mink on Sunday (20/12/2020),” wrote the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in a statement.
The ministry said new work would begin in May next year, when the risk of Covid-19 contamination from dead animals has been eliminated.
“In this way, we avoid mink being treated as a hazardous biological waste, a solution that has never been used before,” the ministry added, reports NDTV.
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The animals will be transported by truck to the nearest incinerator.
The move came as Denmark struggled to control the coronavirus. Denmark has one of the highest coronavirus cases in Europe. There were 609 cases reported yesterday, according to the University of Oxford.
That number is much higher than the UK’s rate of confirmed coronavirus cases, which is 403.
The culling has sparked protests by Danish mink farmers who have also filed counter-legal proceedings. Some say politicians do not have the authority to order the massacre.
However, Danish politicians claimed it was a success. That annihilation is said to most likely eradicate emergence a new variant of the corona virus. as no new infections were detected since 15 September.
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The massacre, which reportedly had no legal basis, caused the agriculture minister to resign and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederisken apologized in tears.
Denmark is a major exporter of mink for the luxury fashion label, with a high demand for leather due to its high livestock raising standards.
Currently, the legislative plan that will prohibit the breeding of mink until 2022 has been enacted into law.
Scientists believe a new variant of the coronavirus, jumped from farm workers to mink in the summer, before being transmitted back to humans.
When viruses cross between species, mutations occur and give rise to protein spikes, which are then reused to enter human cells.
That’s important because the leading vaccine candidates work by targeting this protein.
When news of a new variation of the coronavirus emerged earlier this month, Britain banned non-British citizens returning from Denmark. The UK also applies strict quarantine rules for any British citizen who has recently returned from the country.
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At the time, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned the mutation could have serious consequences if it became widespread.
In contrast, Denmark has now announced it will ban flights from Britain. This was done in response to the British government announcing the discovery of a new variant of the corona virus with an infection rate of up to 70 percent.
According to the World Health Organization, new variants of the coronavirus have been identified in Denmark and the Netherlands. While one case was found in Australia.
Denmark said it would suspend flights from Britain for 48 hours, starting Monday morning (21/12/2020), to limit the spread of the new strain of coronavirus.
France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Israel and El Salvador, prohibit all flights carrying passengers from the UK to the country.
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