8 Nov 2020

Covid 19: Denmark mink cull could kill industry

From Sunday Morning, 9:40 am on 8 November 2020

Danish government experts have announced the country will eliminate the country's entire population of farmed minks -- as many as 17 million -- after mutated coronavirus strains were reported among the animals. And it is set to ravage the world-leading mink industry in Denmark. Copenhagen-based journalist Tom Carstensen joins the show with the latest.

Minks on a farm are culled in Deurne on June 6, 2020, as the Netherlands orders a mass mink cull to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, outbreak which has been linked to at least two human cases,

Photo: AFP