The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Oscar Ordeig, declared that “main objectives» for the containment of African swine fever (ASF) and confirmed that there are no positives outside the radius of 6 … kilometers around Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona).
He said this on Sunday during a press conference from the department’s headquarters in Lleida, during which he confirmed that the number of positives is 13, all located in the first radio. In addition, he reported that more than a hundred animals were analyzed and, according to him, the vast majority of them tested negative: “We are fine and the information is this,” he said.
Likewise, the advisor clarified that the pigs on farms which will be sacrificed with 61,500 out of a total capacity of 80,000 places. Initially, it was explained that the affected farms were 39, while ultimately there were 55, a figure that was changed when the European Commission expanded the number of affected municipalities to 91 – from 76 initially -. With the expansion of the perimeter, new farms have been included and therefore the pigs to be slaughtered are also more numerous.
The advisor also announced that tomorrow the names of the members of the committee of experts who will investigate whether there could have been laboratory leak which exists near the outbreak, this is the case of the Cresa center of the Irta network of the Generalitat, and which is reported as a possible origin of the outbreak.
On the other hand, since Rural agents It was explained that the selective capture of wild boars has already begun, always using cages to avoid noise that would facilitate the dispersal of specimens, in the area between the limit of six kilometers and that of 20.
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