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Jonava district, which became the country’s first COVID-19 fireplace. The current situation in the tissue industry is stable, with a significant reduction in tissue mortality, but coronavirus is still detected in tissues. In this farm the sleep of the fur animals has already been completed, more monitoring is carried out and tissues that have been delayed or are already dead are destroyed, the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS) announces and reports the second case of this disease on the fur farm.
According to this week’s data, Jonava d. Almost 20,000 remained on the farm for the breeding nucleus. tissues whose health status continues to be closely monitored: weekly monitoring samples are taken from both fallen tissue and blood samples to detect antibodies against the coronavirus.
A new COVID-19 chimney has been approved at a tissue farm in the Radviliškis district
The SFVS reports that COVID-19 disease has been confirmed at a tissue farm in the Radviliškis district. This is the second case of this disease registered in Lithuania for fur animals this year, it is suspected that animals susceptible to the coronavirus may have been infected by sick agricultural workers.
The SFVS, in cooperation with the National Center for Public Health under the Ministry of Health, periodically receives information on people who work in tissue farms who are diagnosed with COVID-19. Active monitoring in fur farms, as well as in Radviliskis d. in the case of a farm, as soon as information was received about the infection of its workers by coronavirus.
From Radviliskis d. The samples from the farm where the tissues belonging to UAB Fur Farm LT were kept were selected from November, the initial results of their tests were negative. For further monitoring and analysis of selected samples at the National Institute for the Evaluation of Veterinary and Food Risks, December 30. The test protocol confirmed the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the tissues preserved in the tissue farm.
According to the data available to the SFVS, 6 workers on this farm were infected with coronavirus, so it is likely that they have transmitted the SARS-CoV-2 virus to the tissues. The farm currently has around 55,000. tissues left for variety.
The SFVS will receive information on COVID-19 from workers at the tissue establishment beginning December 21. tightened controls and restricted agricultural activities: the export of animals, feed and other animal products was banned, and on December 30 a decision was made to delay only those tissues that are suspected of being infected or have symptoms of coronavirus
Additional samples will be selected for testing of tissues from adjacent cages and animals in close contact with the diseased. Forced tissue delays are not planned, but those responsible for the farm are obliged to continue to closely monitor the health of stored tissues and to protect workers from the farm from infectious diseases. An SFVS Epizootic Investigation Team will be established to explain how the virus may have entered the farm.
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SFVS experts urge the country’s tissue farms to strictly adhere to all biosecurity requirements and to leave the workplace immediately and limit contact with animals kept on the farm if farm workers experience the minus the slightest symptoms. The inspectors of the SFVS regional unit must also be informed about the illnesses of the people who work on the farms.
To assess and manage the risk of spread of COVID-19 infection, Lithuania is prohibited from importing live tissues from 9 countries where coronavirus has been detected in animal farms: Denmark, Sweden, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France, the United States and Canada.
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