Millions of mink will be dug up from mass graves and burned in waste incinerators in Denmark after some resurfaced, prompting complaints from residents about possible health and environmental risks, the country s government said.
Denmark s entire herd of some 17 million mink destined for the high-end fashion industry was ordered to be culled in early November after hundreds of farms suffered outbreaks of coronavirus and authorities found mutated strains of the virus among people.
Amid fears that the slightly-altered disease would render vaccines developed to fight the original virus useless, Denmark ordered all of its mink destroyed.
But of the four million mink hastily buried at a military area in western Denmark, some soon started to resurface from the sandy soil after gasses from the decomposition process pushed the mink out of the ground.
Italy on Sunday said it has detected a new coronavirus strain with mutations in a person who recently returned from the United Kingdom. On Saturday, the United Kingdom government locked down parts of the country including London after admitting that more than half of all new Covid-19 cases had been caused by a mutated, more infectious coronavirus strain. The patient and their partner returned from the United Kingdom several days ago, landing in Rome s Fiumicino airport. They are now isolated and have observed, together with family and close contacts, all procedures proscribed by the health authorities, Sputnik quoted the ministry s statement.
‘New Coronavirus Strain Found In UK, No Need To Panic’ Published by GulteDesk December 21, 2020
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday reassured the people of the country that the Central government is alert about the new coronavirus strain emerging from the United Kingdom, adding that there is no need to panic.
“The government is alert. There is no need to panic,” said Union Minister while addressing the curtain-raiser press conference on India International Science Festival 2020. This comes after the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock had on Sunday said that the new strain of coronavirus found in their country is “out of control”.
Covid-19 will take years, not months, to render vaccine ineffective: Experts
December 21, 2020
Report further stated that so far coronavirus variant in Britain has around 20 mutations After Britain witnessed an unprecedented surge in the coronavirus cases about the new strain of the virus, health experts urged caution and said that Covid-19 will take years, not months, to evolve enough to render the current vaccine against the virus ineffective, New York Times (NYT) reported.
Easing the worry, the scientists stated that a single catastrophic incident is not going to render all immunities impotent.
According to NYT, researchers have recorded thousands of modifications in the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 as it has “hopscotched across the world.”
Bursa Malaysia heads for a bumpy early start 21 Dec 2020 / 12:16 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia main index, the FBM KLCI opened on a lower note today after the slip on Friday, while other index are heading towards a downtrend on rising concerns of Covid-19 cases globally.
As at 9.15am, the main index was slightly lower by 1.04 points at 1,651.45 compared with Friday’s close of 1,652.49.
At the opening bell, the index down 3.64 points to 1,648.85.
The overall market breadth was neck to neck with gainers edging past losers 269 to 252, while 383 counters were unchanged, 1,263 untraded and 47 others suspended.
Volume stood at 553.42 million units worth RM172.88 million.