Fears over mutated Covid virus from mink lead to Denmark flight ban

Flights between Denmark and the UK were banned on Friday night to prevent the spread of a mutated Covid virus from mink that scientists fear could counter the effectiveness of a vaccine. The flights ban is the first in the UK since the start of the pandemic and follows the discovery of a mutated form of coronavirus, which can spread to humans, in Danish mink farms. Health officials are expected to trace and test some 3,000 people who flew in to the UK from Denmark in the past week via the travel