Denmark - 115,000 people in Holstebro and Ringk?bing-Skjern are encouraged to test - Related to infections in mink

[Gert van der Hoek]

November 23, 2020,
From Ritzau

Due to many cases of infection from mink, citizens in Holstebro and Ringk?bing-Skjern are encouraged to take a coronatest.

All citizens in Holstebro and Ringk?bing-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 Ringk?bing-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 of the special mutated coronavirus cluster 5 have been found, which was the reason why a partial closure of seven North Jutland municipalities was introduced earlier in November.

According to SSI, Cluster 5 has proven more resistant to an upcoming coronavina vaccine. SSI fears the same could happen to other variants of coronavirus mutated from mink.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Holstebro: The number of people affected with a mink variant of corona has been increasing in recent weeks


This is shown by new figures from the Statens Serum Institut.


From the fact that four cases had been found where people were infected with a mink variant of corona in weeks 44 and 45, the number has now increased to 22 people.
More than every fourth corona infection related to mink farming in the Central Jutland Region comes from Holstebro, new figures show.

Thus, Holstebro Municipality is also the municipality in the country that can boast of having the most registered cases of people infected with a variety of corona that has mutated via mink.


As recently as Wednesday, Professor S?ren Riis Paludan from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University said that a high number of people infected with a mink variant should not give cause for concern.


- The good argument for being concerned about mink mutations does not exist. It's like it's hard to get politicians out of that line of thinking. Corona is corona - regardless of origin - until proven otherwise, and it is not yet, he explained.


- For me, it is not the number of infected people with mink mutations that is decisive, but whether one considers that the mutations are dangerous. Because then one case is enough. But there is no evidence to say that the mink variants are particularly dangerous, or that a vaccine will not work, it sounded from S?ren Riis Paludan.

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