Yeosu City Makes All-Out Effort to Block AI During Lunar New Year Holiday... Urges Refraining from Farm Visits

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Yeosu City (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) announced on the 1st that it will implement special quarantine measures to block Avian Influenza (AI) and African Swine Fever (ASF) in preparation for the Lunar New Year holiday, a period of high population movement.

According to the city, an emergency situation room will be established and operated during the Lunar New Year holiday period to ensure the smooth operation of key disinfection facilities and mobile control posts.

Currently, all livestock vehicles entering Yeosu City must be disinfected at the key disinfection facility installed at the Agricultural Technology Center and must carry a disinfection certificate to enter livestock farms.

In particular, banners have been installed at major entrances and intensive publicity is being conducted through text messages and village broadcasts to prevent outsiders, such as returning visitors, from entering farms.

As highly pathogenic AI spreads nationwide and African Swine Fever continues to move southward, the city has been operating the key disinfection facility 24 hours a day since September 17 of last year, and additionally installed a mobile control post in Sinpung, Yulchon-myeon to disinfect vehicles entering livestock farms, making every effort to block the spread.

Yoon Hye-ok, Director of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, "Since this Lunar New Year holiday is expected to be the critical point for the spread of livestock infectious diseases, we will do our best to ensure quarantine of livestock farms and the operation of key disinfection facilities and control posts," and urged "returning visitors and travelers to refrain from visiting livestock farms."

Accordingly, the city requested that any suspected livestock be reported immediately.

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