South Korea is worse! Encountered intense fighting on both sides, including bird flu and Covid
Date 12 Dec 2020 at 16:20
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In addition to the record-breaking 950 people of Covid-19 daily today, South Korea has to deal with a nationwide bird flu outbreak.
South Korean authorities have issued orders to control the movement of poultry nationwide for 48 hours from midnight on Friday or 10:00 pm local time in Thailand. It applies to all poultry farms and livestock product factories. Including vehicles and people working in those locations
The order came after the H5N8 strain of avian influenza outbreak was seen in poultry farms rising to 10 on Friday since late last month.
South Korea has seen an epidemic of H5N8 avian influenza in wild birds since months. Oct. ago in Cheonan city South Chungcheong Province, which is about 84 kilometers west of Seoul.
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said. It has now killed more than 4.4 million affected farmed poultry, including 2.65 million chickens and 1.01 million quails.
The rise of bird flu epidemic sites has made South Korean authorities fully prepared. It had been through a nightmare from an outbreak from November 2017 to February 2018, which killed 6.54 million chickens, ducks and quail at that time and had to import eggs from neighboring countries for Enough to meet the demand and support the egg price
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