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North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms

by Jan M. Olsen
| November 8, 2020 12:03 AM

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than a quarter million Danes went into lockdown Friday in a northern region of the country where a mutated variation of the coronavirus has infected minks being farmed for their fur, leading to an order to kill millions of the animals.

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