Mink and coronavirus: what's happened and should we be worried?
by Linda Geddes from on (#5A1ZY)
Sars-CoV-2 has jumped from humans, mutated and crossed back to cause new infections
News that the coronavirus has crossed from humans into mink, mutated and then jumped back again has generated understandable concern.
Officially, 12 people have been infected at farms so far, mostly in northern Denmark, but the Danish health minister has admitted that up to half of the 783 human Covid cases in the region may be mink-related. This implies that the mutated virus is spreading from person to person, but how worried should we be?
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