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Breaking news: Dutch government reports second case of mine transmitting coronavirus to human

The Dutch agriculture ministry on Monday said it had found what it believes to be the second case of a human becoming infected with the new coronavirus after coming in contact with a mink that had the virus, Reuters reported.

In a letter to parliament, minister Carola Schouten repeated that the country’s National Institute for Health believes the risk of animal-to-human transmission of the virus outside the farms on which they are kept is “negligible.”

On April 26 the Dutch government reported mink on a farm in the south of the country had been found to have the disease, prompting a wider investigation of such farms, where mink are bred for their fur. Last week the government reported its first suspected case of mink-to-human transmission.

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