Coronavirus mutated in Danish minks has already been detected in 214 patients ![]()
It looks like the mouse strain of COVID-19 will soon be replaced by mink. The Danes report that the mutated covid is immune to the vaccine.
The Danish Research Institute has reported that 214 people in the country have contracted a new strain of coronavirus that was previously detected in minks. ![]()
These people became infected from June to October this year, during the period when the outbreak of covid was observed on mink farms. Moreover, 200 infected people live in the North Jutland region. Since November 7, the country’s government has decided to completely isolate this area. Restaurants, cafes and pubs will be closed. Even public transport will stop running. People are prohibited from leaving the region, and schoolchildren and students will switch to distance learning.
According to the SSI state institute, which makes the main decisions in the fight against coronavirus, the new covid strain is not neutralized by antibodies, that is, the mutated mink virus is less susceptible to the vaccine. Vaccination of the population has not yet begun … ![]()
Earlier it was reported that Denmark was unable to contain the virus on mink farms, and on November 4, the government decided to cull about 17 million minks from more than a thousand farms.