JAKARTA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — Animal Husbandry Service in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara Province said on Sunday. The number of pigs suspected of being killed by the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus locally has reached 256.
The report said that at first only 253 pigs died, before three more pigs died in North Timor. Has spread to Kupang District, Kupang City, Ende District, East Flores District, Zika District, Southwest Sumba District. West Sumba District North Central Timor District When since Dec. 21, 2022
Indonesian authorities have distributed 39,200 liters of disinfectant to farmers and have banned the movement of pigs into or out of East Nusa Tenggara province.
East Nusa Tenggara was hit by an outbreak of the virus in 2000 that killed thousands of pigs.
(Xinhua photo file: Veterinarian spraying disinfectant in a pigsty Kabanjahi city North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, Nov. 12, 2019)