All citizens in Holstebro and Ringkøbing-Skjern are encouraged to take a corona test in the coming weeks and at the same time interact with as few people as possible.
These are two of the new initiatives that the government has decided to implement in the two municipalities. This is done on the recommendation of the health authorities.
This is stated by the Ministry of Health and the Elderly in a statement. The initiatives run until 3 December.
The reason for the measures is that many cases of infection have been found among people who work on mink farms or fur farms.
Therefore, the health authorities have recommended that all citizens be tested so that the chains of infection can be broken. There are about 115,000 people in the two municipalities. The massive test effort starts this week.
In the Central Jutland Region, a total of 180 cases of infection related to mink have been found. More than half have been found in Holstebro and Ringkøbing Skjern.
At the same time, according to the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), it is possible that the proportion of infected with mink variants will increase in the two municipalities in the coming weeks.
So far, no cases have been found of the special mutated coronavirus “Cluster 5”, which was the reason why a partial shutdown of seven North Jutland municipalities was introduced earlier in November.
“Cluster 5” has, according to SSI, proved more resistant to an upcoming corona vaccine. SSI fears the same could happen to other variants of coronavirus mutated from mink.
When looking at the general corona infection, Holstebro is in ninth place among municipalities with the most infection.
In the last seven days, Holstebro has had 306 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants.
In Ringkøbing-Skjern, the number is 101, which is below the national average, which is 144.
Source: The Nordic Page