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France today recorded, for the first time, the presence of covid-19 in a mink farm in Eure-et-Loir, as announced today by the ministries of Agriculture, Health and Ecological Transition.
“It was ordered to kill the total of one thousand animals still present in the farm and to eliminate the products of these animals”, inform these offices in a statement.
Of the four mink farms in the country, one is without cases and “analyzes are still ongoing in the other two,” the results of which are expected this week.
Several European countries have already reported contamination of mink farms, mainly in Denmark, with the recent discovery of a variant of the virus, but also in the Netherlands, later in Sweden and Greece, and isolated cases have been reported in Italy and Spain.
Cases have also been detected in the United States of America (USA).
On Saturday, hundreds of Danish farmers demonstrated with tractors in Copenhagen to protest the government’s decision to slaughter animals to combat a problematic mutation of the novel coronavirus. Danish officials said Thursday that this mutation was likely extinct.
The French government today stressed the importance of barrier actions also in this context to protect the mink from contamination by farm staff, but also as a precaution to avoid contact between possibly infected animals and staff.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 1,381,915 deaths resulting from more than 58.1 million cases of the infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 3,897 people have died out of 260,758 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest bulletin of the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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