Coronavirus: Mink
(asked on 11th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what capacity the UK has to detect whether mink-related mutations of coronavirus have arrived in the UK.
This question was answered on 24th November 2020
The COVID-19 Genomics UK consortium provides routine genomic sequencing of a proportion of United Kingdom cases and is monitoring this dataset for the presence of variants seen in mink in Denmark.