RIA Novosti informs about it with reference to the regional department of Rosselkhoznadzor.

"The presence of the African swine fever (ASF) virus DNA in the wild in the Chuguevsky region has been confirmed," the department said.

The report says that "the DNA of the virus was detected in the examined samples of pathological material taken from three corpses of wild boars", which were found in the area of ​​the Shirokaya Pad 'key.

Earlier, in the Kirovsky district of Primorye, quarantine was introduced due to African swine fever.