Denmark incinerates 4 million mink, culled to curb Covid-19 mutations

• UPDATEDMAY 29, 2021, 4:23 AM

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COPENHAGEN (REUTERS) – Denmark this week began incinerating four million mink that had been culled to curb Covid-19 mutations, but whichbegan to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns.

The Danish government last yeardecided to cull all of the country’s 17 million minkto curb a Covid-19 mutation and because the mammal was considered likely to host future mutations.

Some were buried in pits in a military area in western Denmark under 2m of soil, only for some to resurface in less than a month.

Contaminants were later found under the gravesin an examination carried out on behalf of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, prompting the government to…