Ireland’s mink population to be culled amid Covid-19 fears
Farmed mink
The country’s farmed mink population will be culled over fears of the further spread of Covid-19 through a variant strain of the virus after a mutated form of the virus was detected in a Danish mink farm.
It’s understood the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan wrote to the chief vet at the Department of Agriculture in recent days outlining concerns over a variant strain of Covid in mink, which is feared could represent a “significant” an ongoing risk to public health if this strain was to become the dominant strain.
