Denmark on Thursday (November 5) announced specific restrictions for more than 280,000 inhabitants in the northwest of the country, in order to prevent new cases in humans of a mutation of the coronavirus from mink, which according to Copenhagen could threaten the efficacy of a future human vaccine.
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"From this evening, the citizens of seven municipalities in North Jutland are strongly encouraged to stay in their own municipality to prevent the spread of the infection," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference.
Danes and foreigners are ordered not to go to the area where restaurants and bars will be closed from Saturday.
Denmark is the world's largest exporter of mink skins, an activity that has made the fortune of more than a thousand farms in the small Nordic kingdom.
The fifteen million farmed specimens in the country will have to be slaughtered.
