29 employees and 12 residents at the nursing home Vendelbocentret in the Municipality of Hjørring is found to be contaminated with corona.
Now it turns out that several of the infected employees at the care centre are linked to the two minkfarme in the area, which also is found corona.
It writes the TV 2 Nord.
Minkavler Peter Nielsen explains that he earlier in the week tested positive for the coronavirus. He was tested after his wife, which makes a clean at the care centre, had been infected with the corona.
– Where it comes from, I can’t say, but it can come from many places, he says to TV2 Nord.
Hjørring Municipality is badly affected by corona and is the only one of the country’s municipalities, where there have been more than 50 new smittetilfælde per 100,000 population the past week.
It shows figures from the Statens Serum Institut.
in Addition to the 41 infected at Vendelbocentret is also found to have infection among students at the three schools. The case of the Hills School, Bagterp School and Lundergårdskolen.
on Wednesday informed the agency that, for the first time at home were found to have coronavirus on a Danish mink farm.
It was the Agency for Patient safety, who contacted the Fda, that a person connected to the farm were infected.
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the 34 samples from the mink were analyzed and showed that the animals had corona virus in itself. They showed no symptoms of infection, but all are 11,000 mink are still culled out from a precautionary approach.
It is not yet decided, whether it is the person related to the minkfarmen, who have brought the infection into. Or whether animals can be infected person.
Minkavler Peter Nielsen hope the same happens to his 4300 mink.
– It is a sport and a hobby to make some good mink. You go up in it with life and soul. So it is a little hard having to lose some good strains. It will be terrible if I had them, I have, he says to TV 2 Nord.