An agreement was reached on Wednesday evening on how mink breeders should be compensated if their herd is killed to contain corona infection. This is stated by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
The lack of such an agreement has meant that a mass-killing of one million mink on Wednesday was dropped.
According to the Ministry of Food, 150 herds of mink must be killed as part of the effort to contain the corona infection.
It will be the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. The Agency is responsible for the killings together with the Danish Emergency Management Agency.
They announced earlier Wednesday that they are ready Thursday morning.
More than 200 men will be involved in the killings, the ministry said.
The mink breeders will be compensated financially.
Infected mink farms will be compensated for 20 percent of their operating losses. Non-infectious mink farms will be fully compensated.
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Mogens Jensen (S) has already announced killings. It happened at a press conference earlier in October.
Here, however, it was said that up to 100 mink herds had to be killed. So now there are even more.
At the same press conference, it emerged that the infection on the mink farms has not been without human consequences, said Kåre Mølbak, professional director at the Statens Serum Institut.
Some of the corona-infected Hjørring and Frederikshavn have been infected by mink.
The corona infection has been on North Jutland mink farms and a single mink farm on Læsø.
But on Wednesday it emerged that the infection had spread to a Central Jutland mink farm.
The first corona case among mink was registered on a mink farm in North Jutland on 17 June.
Since then, the number of infected mink herds has risen sharply.
Source: The Nordic Page