Previously EGG-NEWS has commented on outbreaks of COVID in farmed mink in various European nations.  Initially authorities in Poland denied reports following isolation of virus from mink by a medical university.  Subsequently the National Veterinary Service conceded that mink were affected, but individual farms were not depleted as in Scandinavia, but were quarantined.

On June 21st, Poland confirmed an asymptomatic outbreak in a unit housing 37,000 animals.  The case was identified on routine surveillance with three out of forty nasopharyngeal swabs positive on RT- PCR.  The outbreak occurred in Wisznice-Kolonia a few miles from the intersection of the borders of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.