PandemicPreparedness

September 2021: Four minks on a farm tested positive for SAS-2-CoV, possibly infected by a human worker who recently had the virus. The affected farm, in Galicia, houses more than 11,000 mink.

Posted June 2021: Five minks were infected on a farm in the Corunna region in northwestern Spain. It is believed they were infected by infected human workers on the farm. None died and none of the farm's stock was culled.

Posted January 2021: Around 1,000 minks were culled in Navatalgordo, Castilla and Leon after two tested positive for COVID-19. Authorities believe they were infected by human workers carrying the virus.

Posted July 2020: Spain has become the third nation to reported COVID-19 infections among farmed minks, joining Denmark and the Netherlands. Around 80 percent of the 93,000 minks on a farm in the Aragon region of eastern Spain were found infected. News reports say none had symptoms and there were no abnormal deaths among the animals. All minks on the farm will be culled. Authorities discovered the animals' infections after a farmworker's wife tested positive for COVID-19 in May. The worker also eventually tested positive for the disease, as did six other farm employees. It is not known if the humans infected the animals, or the animals infected the humans. Genetic testing done after an outbreak on a mink farm in the Netherlands in May indicated that the disease moved from animal to person.