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After being swabbed in August, at least two mink samples from a farm in Lombardy tested positive for COVID-19 . It is not clear at the moment in which municipality or province the infection occurred, probably Cremona or Brescia.
The complaint comes from LAV , which obtained this information only after numerous and insistent appeals and requests for access to the documents to the Ministry of Health, the Technical Scientific Committee, the Regions and the IZS (of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna). The tests were carried out in August, so the health authorities had already been aware of the fact for months, but have chosen not to report it.
Italy joins a long list of countries where minks have tested positive for COVID-19. The virus has also been detected in various farms in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and the United States . Thousands of animals were killed for purportedly preventative purposes.
The complaint comes from LAV , which obtained this information only after numerous and insistent appeals and requests for access to the documents to the Ministry of Health, the Technical Scientific Committee, the Regions and the IZS (of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna). The tests were carried out in August, so the health authorities had already been aware of the fact for months, but have chosen not to report it.
Italy joins a long list of countries where minks have tested positive for COVID-19. The virus has also been detected in various farms in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and the United States . Thousands of animals were killed for purportedly preventative purposes.
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