Sweden's health agency said on Thursday a number of people who work in the mink industry had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Authorities are analyzing virus from the infected people and from infected minks to see if there is a link between the strains, the health agency said in a statement.
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It did not specify how many people had tested positive.
Neighboring Denmark earlier on Thursday said a new, mutated strain of the coronavirus stemming from mink farms in the country was "most likely" extinct.
