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Denmark is taking steps necessary to contain the spread of coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms. The aggressive action is designed to end the virus that has developed in the nations' mink farms and is being spread to humans. Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen announced that farmworkers have contracted the virus that contains a mutation. According to Gizmodo, the first discovery of this mutation was found in infected minks. Public health officials fear the mutation could possibly affect our immune response to the virus. The government plans to kill all of its farmed mink population, estimated to be as high as 17 million total.
Harare (Zimbabwe), 31 Jul (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Aaron Ufumeli).- Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed the death of Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri as a result of Covid-19. Shiri died early Wednesday morning after being isolated after his driver died last weekend of coronavirus. However, members of the agriculture minister's family told local media that they suspected Shiri's death might be the result of food poisoning.FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL of ZIMBABWE'S AGRICULTURE MINISTER IN HARARE
Arnaud Rousseau, President of the FNSEA, France's top farmers' union, welcomes Marc Fesneau, the French Agriculture Minister, to the 78th FNSEA Congress in Dunkirk, northern France, at a time when the beginning of the year has been marked by a vast movement of anger in the farming world. IMAGES
Polish Prime Minister Donal Tusk welcomes his Ukrainian counterpart Denis Shmygal in Warsaw for bilateral talks over farm imports. Polish farmers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine since last month to protest at what they say is unfair competition from goods from the war-torn country. The border blockades and grain dispute have strained ties between the neighbours, even as Poland has shown staunch support for Ukraine since the Russian invasion. IMAGES
France's new junior Agriculture Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher arrives at ministry where she is greeted by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Marc Fesneau. Pannier-Runacher, the former Minister for Energy Transition was appointed at a time when the government must quickly enact the announcements it made last week in response to the farmers' crisis. IMAGES
Denmark's King Frederik X attends the symbolic opening ceremony at the Vestas Offshore turbine factory in Szczecin in Poland. Together with other guests, the Danish monarch witnesses the laying of the foundation stone celebrating Vestas' investments in Poland. IMAGES
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