Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Coronavirus: Denmark to exhume millions of mink from mass graves” – below is their description.
Danish legislators on Monday passed a law to ban mink breeding until December 2021, following last month’s cull of approximately 17 million mink because researchers had found a COVID-19 mutation in the animals.
But officials will now exhume millions of mink from mass graves after some carcasses resurfaced because of fears they could contaminate ground water.
The country’s mink farmers are demanding compensation for their businesses which they say have been totally destroyed.
Al Jazeera’s Paul Rhys reports from Jutland, Denmark.
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Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. The capital is Copenhagen. Denmark proper, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 islands.
The Kingdom of Denmark comprises Denmark proper and the two autonomous territories in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Home rule was established in the Faroe Islands in 1948; in Greenland home rule was established in 1979 and further autonomy in 2009.
Denmark has highly developed mixed economy. Denmark became a member of the European Economic Community (now the EU) in 1973, but negotiated certain opt-outs; it retains its own currency, the krone. It is among the founding members of NATO, the Nordic Council, the OECD, OSCE, and the United Nations; it is also part of the Schengen Area. Denmark has close linguistic ties to its Scandinavian neighbours.
