Denmark’s Prime Min­is­ter Fred­erik­sen sees him­self forced to take a dras­tic step: a lock­down will be issued for the North Jut­land region. A mutat­ed form of the coro­n­avirus was found in mink in the area. Sev­er­al peo­ple have already been infect­ed.  Con­cerned about the spread of a muta­tion of the coro­n­avirus that has occurred in mink, the Dan­ish gov­ern­ment is issu­ing far-reach­ing restric­tions in the North Jut­land region. Local pub­lic trans­port will be dis­con­tin­ued in sev­en munic­i­pal­i­ties, and the almost 280,000 res­i­dents are urged to stay in their own munic­i­pal­i­ty. Stu­dents in the fifth to eighth grade are to be taught remote­ly from Mon­day, the same applies to stu­dents of fur­ther edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, as the Dan­ish Prime Min­is­ter Mette Fred­erik­sen announced.

Coro­n­avirus mutates Den­mark has all mink slaughtered

The munic­i­pal­i­ties of Hjør­ring, Fred­erik­shavn, Brøn­der­slev, Jam­mer­bugt, Thist­ed, Vesthim­mer­land and Læsø are affect­ed by the restric­tions. Restau­rants, pubs and oth­er places have to close there from Sat­ur­day, but may offer take-away. Sports halls, swim­ming pools and fit­ness stu­dios will be closed from Mon­day. Danes and for­eign vis­i­tors were encour­aged to stay away from the area. Trains and bus­es should no longer cross the bor­ders to the regions. “The world’s eyes are on us,” said Fred­erik­sen. It is a “real cor­don”, a real lock­down, of the region. This is nec­es­sary because a mutat­ed coro­n­avirus brings with it the risk of influ­enc­ing the effects of an upcom­ing vac­cine. All cit­i­zens in the affect­ed com­mu­ni­ties are asked to take a coro­na test. Fred­erik­sen announced on Wednes­day that the virus had mutat­ed in Dan­ish minks and had been trans­mit­ted to humans. There­fore, all minks in the coun­try are now being killed — there are sev­er­al mil­lion ani­mals whose fur is used, among oth­er things, for fur coats.

No more dan­ger­ous than oth­er coronaviruses

Den­mark is the world’s largest pro­duc­er of mink fur. The coun­try cur­rent­ly has 1,139 breed­ing farms and around 15 to 17 mil­lion mink, a par­tic­u­lar­ly large num­ber in North Jut­land. As report­ed by the “Süd­deutsche Zeitung”, the coun­try export­ed mink skins worth almost two bil­lion euros in the record year 2013 alone. Accord­ing to this, around 6,000 peo­ple work in the indus­try. The killing of the ani­mals is now tan­ta­mount to clos­ing the indus­try. So far, the mutat­ed virus has been found in twelve peo­ple in Den­mark, includ­ing eleven from North Jut­land. The tech­ni­cal direc­tor of the Dan­ish health insti­tute SSI, Kåre Møl­bak, under­lined that this virus is no more dan­ger­ous than oth­er coro­n­avirus­es. The risk, how­ev­er, is that it is more resis­tant to antibodies.

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