The Dutch government says it has evidence to suggest a human has contracted coronavirus from a mink. In a letter sent on Wednesday, the Dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten said a worker on a mink farm had contracted a strain of COVID-19 that was similar to that found in an animal on the premises.
She said this meant it was "likely" that mink-to-human transmission had occurred. "These new research results have a major impact on the owners, families and employees of mink companies as well