Health reported an outbreak of COVID-19 on a mink farm in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia.
In a press release Sunday night, Fraser Health said that eight other people on the farm had tested positive and that this worker was conducting screening and touch search tests.
Self-insulation assigned, he says.
The fitness authority identified the network or farm.
A spokesman for the fitness authority said that “the newsletter is all we have for percentage at this time,” when asked for more express information.
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In Denmark, government officials ordered the killing of 17 million mink after scientists discovered that a strain of the new coronavirus had passed from humans to mink and then back to humans mutated.
Spain and the Netherlands have killed the mink due to outbreaks, and cases have also been known on mink farms in the United States.
Not without delay is it transparent if any of the mink on the farm was infected. The Ministry of Agriculture is testing animals on site, the physical fitness authority said.
The farm ordered the transportation of farm animals, products and goods under the BC Animal Health Act, Fraser Health said.
WorkSafeBC is contacting other mink farms to discuss the needs of their COVID-19 protection plans, he said.