(CNN) The Danish government has backtracked on an order to cull the country's entire mink population after realizing it had no legal authority to mandate the killing of mink on farms unaffected by coronavirus. It needed to have passed new legislation in order to legally mandate a cull, and will now put a bill to parliament. The order to cull even mink on farms unaffected by coronavirus was questioned over its legal validity, according to state broadcaster TV2, and the government admitted that it did not have the legal authority to make the order. The government ordered the cull due to concerns about a virus mutation that had arisen in infected mink. Coronavirus has been found on more than 200 mink farms, and 12 humans have been found to have the mutated form of the virus that is of concern, said the government.

Source: CNN November 10, 2020 17:15 UTC