2 Dec 2020

'Zombie mink' rising from graves in Denmark

From Morning Report, 6:13 am on 2 December 2020

Denmark plans to dig up thousands of dead mink - culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus - after the animals started to rise out of their mass graves.

Hundreds of bloated mink corpses have emerged from their burial sites, prompting Danish media to dub them "zombie mink". 

Earlier this month, the government ordered all farmed mink to be culled after finding that 12 people had been infected by a mutated strain of the virus that causes Covid-19, which passed from humans to mink and back to humans.

Some 17 million mink were gassed and buried in trenches in a military zone in the west of the country.

Denmark correspondent Kevin McGwin speaks to Corin Dann.