According to USDA-FAS Report SW2021-0002 dated January 29th, the Swedish Board of Agriculture has banned mink farming until December 31st 2021.  Farmers will be permitted to maintain breeding stock in anticipation of resuming operations in 2022.

In January 2021, authorities updated control measures to intensify biosecurity, restrict entry to mink farms and impose mandatory quarantine on individuals in contact with a herd diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2.  From October 2020 through the end of the year, 13 of 40 mink farms in Sweden were found to infected, concurrent with outbreaks in Denmark, Spain, Poland, the U.S. and the Netherlands.