Now the Generalitat has relaxed the restrictions on the second perimeter of the African swine fever epidemic, from 6 to 20 kilometers around the high risk zone, from where the ban on access to nature will be lifted, while remaining within a radius of 6 kilometers from the epicenter located in Cerdanyola (Barcelona). In particular, as the Government announced last month, since last month we can travel on foot or carry out evictions individually through the natural areas of the second perimeter, until now closed, and which includes land in around seventy localities, including Barcelona, Badalona or L’Hospitalet. However, within this second perimeter the ban on carrying out organized activities will always be maintained.
The agricultural councilor, Òscar Ordeig, last year said “caution” and “collaboration” to the city and recalled that all restrictions remain in force for the moment in the first perimeter of 6 kilometers, which only concerns a few localities. The Government decided last March to declare an emergency to contain and mitigate the effects of the African swine fever epidemic which broke out in Collserola (Barcelona) and which caused the death of 13 specimens due to this virus, triggering the closure of the market. The Consell approved an aid envelope of 10 million euros, which could be extended to 20 for agricultural operations in the sector, in addition to activating a subsidy of 50 million euros from the Català Institute of Finance open since the financial crisis.
A court in Cerdanyola will investigate the origin of the germ before determining that it came from a laboratory. The first corpse of an infected jabalí appeared on November 28 a few meters from the CReSA laboratory, criticized for the absence of a double wall and which had also been under construction since September 15, as revealed by this newspaper. Documentation provided to the National Biosafety Commission confirms that those same days the laboratory was working with the virus. The laboratory spotted by the suspected fugitive African swine fever virus in the province of Barcelona had planned at least one of the experiments with the pathogen on the same days that the first infected wild boar appeared hundreds of meters from the facility, according to documents from the National Biosafety Commission analyzed by EL PAÍS.
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