An outbreak of coronavirus among mink in Denmark led the country to announce a mass cull of the 15-17m animals on fur farms there.

Now, for the first time, cases of novel coronavirus have been found in mink farms in Poland.

AFP reported that scientists at Gdansk Medical University said they had carried out tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus on 91 mink from a farm in northwest Poland and eight of them had turned out positive.