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Marius Masiulis, head of the Emergency Division of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS), told BNS that about 3,000 people should sleep on the first day. tissues.
“Today (Wednesday) the dream of the beasts will begin, a slightly bigger dream of their fur will begin. For the first stage, about 3 thousand tissues are planned to fall asleep,” he said.
In total, the farm currently has around 59 thousand. fabrics belonging to Danmink and Vilkijos ūkis. About 40 thousand. they are intended to sleep and be used as furs.
According to Masiulis, the remains of the tissues will be kept in the freezers for a few to several weeks, during which time the virus should die. The decision is also aimed at ensuring that the animals are killed more quickly and protecting people who work on their fur from possible infection.
“So far it has been agreed that in a first stage the sleep of the animals is carried out to the maximum, they would be placed in the freezers without peeling their fur. In order to speed up the eradication process and reduce the risk of direct contact with these sleeping animals, ”said the SFVS specialist.
“(The virus) can only survive on the skin for about a week, and further processing, drying or chemical treatment completely destroys the virus,” he added.
Masiulis also said that blood samples would be taken from the animals that had fallen asleep on their fur, and the service would check if they had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, if they were sick, but asymptomatic or not at all.
The SFVS intends to address the use of skins at a later stage, after which samples of dead tissue and infected workers will be sent to a World Health Organization laboratory to try to determine the origin of the virus.
“I mean, we’ll see who infected what,” Masiulis said.
The coronavirus was detected in this farm last week, on Monday in the Jonava district an emergency situation was introduced due to it, the head of the SFVS branch Jonava D. Šutovienė was assigned to lead it.
According to Masiulis, since the detection of the coronavirus on the farm, strict restrictions have been introduced under the control of SFVS specialists, and the animals are destroyed according to a pre-established plan.
“It certainly is not here for the owners of the farm to decide for themselves what to do and how to do it, because there is a very detailed plan: from which roofs, from which sections to start delaying, to prevent the virus from spreading further” , said.
During Tuesday, 359 animals died on the farm from deaths from coronavirus or from close contact with the dead. According to M. Masiulis, these figures are not very different from those of the previous days: there were 324 animals of this type on Monday and 356 on Sunday.
The Authority hopes that further destruction of animals by fur can help reduce the spread of the disease.
“We hope that the most susceptible animals will be eliminated and we will observe that the mortality curve goes up or down,” said an SFVS specialist.
Late last week, the coronavirus was confirmed for two employees at another farm in the Radviliškis district. The director of the company “Šiaurės lapė” BNS declared that all 50 thousand. Tissue asleep already on Friday, assured that this is not due to the spread of the coronavirus, but to the normal process of maturation of the animals as necessary.
According to SFVS, employees of the farm in Radviliškis became infected with coronavirus without direct contact with living tissues.
Danish authorities reported in early November that the coronavirus had mutated in tissues, carrying the risk that the altered virus could be fully or partially resistant to vaccines currently in development, rendering them ineffective or only partially effective.
Coronavirus tissues grown in Lithuania were tested preventively when coronavirus outbreaks were detected in tissue farms in Denmark, and later in Spain, Italy, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden and Greece.
Lithuanian tissue producers are required to provide the service with data on dead tissue every week. Furthermore, in mid-November a ban on importing live tissues from countries with outbreaks of the virus came into force in Lithuania.
According to SFVS, more than 1.6 million tissues.
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