mink over fears they may carry a mutated version of the coronavirus detected in the animals in Denmark, a government spokesman said Thursday.An agriculture ministry spokesman said that testing of Ireland's mink herd has yielded no positive Covid-19 tests to date.But the Republic's department of health "indicated that the continued farming of mink represents an ongoing risk of additional mink-adapted [coronavirus] variants emerging," he said in a statement."Therefore, it has recommended that farmed mink in Ireland should be culled to minimise or eliminate this risk."National media report there are three mink farms housing around 100,000 animals across Ireland.The agriculture department said it "continues to engage with the mink farmers to.