Dutch report new virus infection on mink farm

THE HAGUE: Dutch authorities announced that yet another mink farm has been infected with the novel coronavirus, making 18 in total, with thousands of animals to be culled.

The outbreak was reported on a farm at Landhorst in the southeast, the Health Ministry said in a statement, in the same region where 17 other farms were also infected.

“The infection was discovered because the mink showed symptoms of the disease and farmers are obliged to report it,” the ministry said.

The farm “will be cleared as soon as possible,” it added.

The Netherlands first reported in April that two mink farms had been infected with the Covid-19 disease.

At least two workers were also infected in what the World Health Organization said could be the first known animal-tohuman transmissions.

Last month authorities culled thousands of mink on farms infected by the coronavirus. — AFP