Shocking photos showed diggers and construction lorries offloading thousands of dead mink into ditches this morning (pictured main, top left and bottom left and right), with workers

in hazmat suits spraying down the vehicles with disinfectant .The Danish environmental and health authorities announced the animals were being buried in mass graves on military land near the northwestern town of Holstebro because there are not enough incinerators to burn all of the corpses.
It comes as the country desperately tries to eradicate a mutated strain of corona virus found in the animals. The new variant - called Cluster 5 - has caused widespread alarm because of a change to its ‘spike protein’, which is uses to invade human cells. It’s significant because the leading vaccine candidates - including Pfizer’s jab, which was yesterday revealed to be 90 per cent effective - work by targeting this protein. Danish officials are trying to stomp it out before its unleashed on the general public, though, so far, it is only known to have infected 13 people in northern Denmark.