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COPENHAGEN, May 28 (Reuters) - Denmark this week began incinerating 4 million mink that had been culled to curb COVID-19 mutations but began to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns.
The Danish government last year decided to cull all of the country’s 17 million mink to 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 two metres of soil only for some to resurface in less than a month.
Contaminants were later found under the graves in an examination carried out on behalf of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, prompting the government to order the incineration of the the animals.
Denmark this week began incinerating 4 million mink that had been culled to curb COVID-19 mutations but began to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark should not allow nightclubs and music venues to reopen given a recent increase in COVID-19 infections and should pause a planned fourth phase of relaxing its lockdown measures, its state epidemiologist said on Tuesday.
“It is not something that I can recommend from a healthcare perspective that you go ahead with,” Kare Molbak, a director at the State Serum Institute, told the Danish technology journal Ingenioeren.
Denmark, which has had 616 coronavirus-related deaths, was the first country in Europe to relax its lockdown in April after seeing infection rates steadily decline, but the number of infections has risen in the past couple of weeks.
UPDATE 2-Denmark widens coronavirus lockdown after record infections Reuters 12/10/2020
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Denmark said on Thursday it will expand lockdown measures announced earlier this week to more cities, placing almost 80% of the population under the tight restrictions after registering its highest number of new daily infections yet. There is widespread infection throughout society and incipient pressure on the hospital system, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke told reporters, adding a further rise in infections in the coming days is expected.
From Friday, a lockdown initially imposed this week on 38 towns and cities will be expanded to 69 municipalities.