B.C. Mink Farmer Destroys 1,000 Animals After Some Test Positive for COVID-19

B.C. Mink Farmer Destroys 1,000 Animals After Some Test Positive for COVID-19
Minks look out of a cage at a fur farm in the village of Litusovo, northeast of Minsk, Belarus in this file photo. AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File
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VICTORIA—British Columbia’s chief veterinarian says a mink farmer decided to euthanize the remaining 1,000 animals on his Fraser Valley operation after some of the mink tested positive for COVID-19.

Dr. Rayna Gunvaldsen says the operator was not ordered by the provincial government to euthanize the animals as more tests are underway to determine the extent of the presence of COVID-19.