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		</div><p>The Danish government wants to cull all 15 million mink in the country’s farms, to minimise the risk of them retransmitting coronavirus to humans.</p>
<p>Prime minister Mette Frederiksen said a report from a government agency that maps coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by mink.</p>
<p>Health minister Magnus Heunicke said half the 783 human Covid-19 cases in northern Denmark “are related” to mink.</p>
<p>“It is very, very serious,” Ms Frederiksen said. “Thus, the mutated virus in mink can have devastating consequences worldwide.”</p>
<p>Denmark is one of the world’s main mink fur exporters, producing an estimated 17 million furs per year.</p>
<p>Kopenhagen Fur, a co-operative of 1,500 Danish breeders, accounts for 40% of the global mink production. Most of its exports go to China and Hong Kong.</p>
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<p>According to government estimates, culling the country’s 15 million mink could cost up to five billion kroner (£605 million).</p>
<p>National police head Thorkild Fogde said “it should happen as soon as possible”.</p>
<p>Denmark’s minister for food, Mogens Jensen, said 207 farms were now infected, up from 41 last month, and the disease has spread to all of the western peninsula of Jutland.</p>
<p>Last month, Denmark started culling millions of mink in the north of the country. The government has promised to compensate farmers.</p>
<p>The country has registered 50,530 confirmed Covid-19 infections and 729 deaths.</p>
<p>A total of 207 out of the 1,139 fur farms in Denmark have been infected with Covid-19, which prompted the announcement. Millions of mink will be killed as a result.</p>
<p>Animal welfare group Humane Society International applauded the prime minister for taking “such an essential and science-based step to protect Danish citizens” and said it hoped that losing so many mink to the coronavirus causes fur farms to get out of the business.</p>
<p>“Although the death of millions of mink, whether culled for Covid-19 or killed for fur, is an animal welfare tragedy, fur farmers will now have a clear opportunity to pivot away from this cruel and dying industry and choose a more humane and sustainable livelihood instead,” Humane Society International-Europe spokesman Joanna Swabe said.</p>
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