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Rothenburg / Dresden (dpa / sn) - After two new cases of African swine fever, the previous risk area in East Saxony is to be expanded.
The crisis team will meet on Tuesday, with new general directives to be expected in the middle of the week, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health on Saturday upon request.
Meanwhile, on the weekend, preparations were under way to erect a mobile electric fence within a two to three kilometer radius of the new outbreak site.
"That will happen soon."
On Friday, the Ministry of Health announced two new cases of the highly contagious animal disease in wild boars in the Görlitz district.
Since the end of October, when such an infection was detected for the first time in Saxony, the number of confirmed cases in the Free State has risen to 19. This now also includes a wild boar that was found dead outside the previously defined risk area near Rothenburg.
Therefore, the red zone must now be extended and the area fenced in quickly.
With a view to the new outbreak, Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) appealed to the affected federal states of Saxony and Brandenburg to protect domestic pigs as best as possible and to require them to be stabled.
Pigs are kept free-range in organic farms.
The Ministry of Health in Dresden emphasized on Saturday that open-air and free-range husbandry were already prohibited in the danger zone and the adjacent buffer zone.
In addition, all pig farmers in Saxony are obliged to take strict security measures so that the virus cannot get into their livestock.
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