Factbox: Some key facts about the mink industry in Europe

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Denmark, Europe's largest exporter of mink pelts, said it will cull millions of the animals bred for their fur after COVID-19 infections were transmitted to their keepers.

FILE PHOTO: Caged minks are seen amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, at a mink farm in Gjoel, North Jutland, Denmark October 9, 2020. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via REUTERS

Some tougher lockdown measures will be imposed in the north of the country, where most of the farming is based. More than 100 Dutch producers, with around 800,000 mother animals, have been ordered to close three years early by March 2021, at a cost of 180 million euros to the Dutch government. The novel coronavirus has been found at 69 Dutch mink farms.

 

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