The Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat de Cataluña has reported the appearance of five new outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) in the area classified as being of high risk in Collserola (Barcelona), as communicated this Thursday in an official note.
The department has specified that all confirmed positives in recent days come from remains of wild boars with an estimated age of more than 1.5 months.
Over the course of this week, 371 samples have been processed, of which 1.3% have tested positive. Since the outbreak was declared, 15,484 analyses have been carried out, with a total of 429 positive results.
Likewise, the Department has detailed that in these days 388 wild boars have been captured within the restricted perimeter, which raises the accumulated figure to 14,795 specimens since the start of the health episode.
To date, 34 individual traps and 93 collective traps have been placed, in addition to 354 perimeter closures being carried out to prevent the entry and exit of wild boars in the affected area.