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Bird flu has spread to nine states in India amid the coronavirus epidemic. The latest reports of infections in Delhi and Maharashtra. Previously, bird flu was detected in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Gujarat.
According to NDTV, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has already convened senior officials from the Ministry of Livestock to verify the availability of animal vaccines in the country. A meeting is scheduled for Monday at 3 pm.
Haryana has the highest number of dead birds so far. More than four lakh birds have died in the state in recent weeks. Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh are on alert.
The importation of poultry and such birds has been banned and Delhi has closed the state’s largest wholesale poultry market in Gazipur. Emergency teams with experts in each district have been formed to prevent infection.
In the past two days, 700 chickens have died in Maharashtra. His samples tested positive for bird flu.
After 12,000 ducks died in Kerala’s Alappuzha and Kottayam districts, some 10,000 birds died last week when the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was confirmed there. A control has been imposed on the sale of chickens in the affected areas.
The slaughter of 160,000 birds began on Saturday at five poultry farms in Haryana. More than four lakh bird deaths have been reported in the state in the past two to three weeks.
About two thousand birds have died in a sanctuary in Himachal. A ban was imposed on the buying and selling of poultry, chicken, fish, meat and eggs in the Kangra district of the state.
The central government has strongly instructed states to take the utmost precautions to ensure that the disease is not transmitted to humans in any way.
