Nearly 100,000 minks on a Spanish farm were killed for the new crown epidemic
Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, July 18th (Xie Yuzhi) The government of the Aragon Autonomous Region of Spain has ordered the killing of 92,700 minks raised on a farm. Seven workers on the farm had been infected with the new coronavirus, and then the local authorities conducted a virus test on the mink raised on the farm. The positive rate of the last round of testing reached 87%.
The Director of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Environment of Aragon Autonomous Region Joaquin Olona said that because of the previous positive test of 7 workers on the farm, the local authorities began to prevent the mink raised on this farm from May 22 Control, prohibit these animals and related products from leaving the farm, and carry out four rounds of new coronavirus testing for them.
In the last round of testing conducted in July, 78 of the 90 samples sent were tested positive for new coronavirus, accounting for 87% of the total number of samples. Olona said that this allowed the local agricultural department to confirm the spread of the virus in the mink population.
Olona said that it is not yet possible to determine whether it is possible for the virus to spread from animal to human or from human to animal. Based on this "high degree of uncertainty", the local agricultural department made a decision to kill these minks to avoid The virus spreads to humans.
The new crown epidemic in Aragon, Spain, has recently rebounded sharply. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health on the 17th, there were 252 new cases in the region on a single day, the highest among all autonomous regions in Spain; on the same day, there were 628 new cases in Spain on a single day.