Kopenhagen Fur announced plans to close its doors by 2023 after the Danish government ordered a mass culling.

By BRYAN HOOD 

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The Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t just slowed the fur business inDenmark; it may have killed it off entirely. That’s because a newly discoveredcoronavirusmutation has led the government to order a mass culling of the country’s mink population.

In the wake of the decision, which was made by the prime minister last week, the world’s largest fur auction house, Kopenhagen Fur, has announced plans to close its doors,reports the Associated Press. The cooperative won’t shut down immediately but has begun a “gradual downsizing” and will cease business within two to three years.

On November 4, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that a government agency tasked with mapping Covid-19 haddiscovered a rare mutated version of the virusin 11 people who…