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Quarantine due to outbreaks of a dangerous virus disease of animals –African swine fever – has been introduced in 23 villages and towns in 15 regions of Ukraine, according to the press service of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
In particular, quarantine regulations were introduced in Zakarpattia (5), Kyiv (3), Odesa and Kherson (2 each), Vinnytsia, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Poltava, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv (1 each) regions.
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If veterinarians do not register new outbreaks in a village, it is considered to be no longer in quarantine.
According to the press service, 116 ASF cases have been reported in Ukraine since the beginning of 2017. In total, 264 ASF outbreaks had been registered in 24 Ukrainian regions since 2012, as of October 5, 2017.