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Denmark discovers Covid strain that could hinder vaccine efforts


Lab engineers classify blood samples for a COVID-19 vaccination study at the Research Center of America in Hollywood, Florida. Photographer: Chandan Kanna | AFP / Getty Images via Bloomberg
Lab engineers classify blood samples for a COVID-19 vaccination study at the Research Center of America in Hollywood, Florida. | Representative Images | Photographer: Chandan Kanna | AFP / Getty Images via Bloomberg

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Copenhagen: Denmark says it has discovered a new strain of Covid-19 that may hinder efforts to develop vaccines after the outbreak of the country’s mink population has caused mutations in the virus.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters at a virtual press conference Wednesday that progress in Denmark “would weaken the effectiveness of future vaccines or, in the worst case, weaken them.”

Her government has passed that information to the World Health Organization and is currently planning to dispose of the entire population of mink in Denmark.by Copenhagen furThe auction house, owned by the Danish mink breeder, raises about 16 million animals each year.

It has changed thousands of times as the new coronavirus spreads from person to person. Most of these changes are gradual and none are known as functionally significant mutations, Previous discussion Beyond studies showing that it may have evolved to become more contagious.

The viral mutations currently identified in Denmark “may have a serious negative impact on the global treatment of pandemics,” Frederiksen said. She said there are 12 known cases of humans being infected with a new form of virus from mink.

Denmark has already eliminated thousands of mink in recent months due to the outbreak of the virus. According to a briefing on Wednesday, cases of Covid-19 were found on 217 of 1,139 Danish mink farms.

Classification

In the same briefing, Denmark’s top epidemiologist Kale Morbak said, “In the worst-case scenario, this time the pandemic will resume in Denmark.” He said WHO must make a final call on whether the mutations found on the Danish mink farm justify the new classification.

The Danish Prime Minister and other government members and health officials who attended the briefing on Wednesday spoke via television screens after the outbreak of Covid in Parliament self-isolated Frederiksen and more than half of her cabinet. ..

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