Gyeonggi Province Ends AI and Foot-and-Mouth Disease Disaster Safety Task Force Operations...Disease Prevention Continues

Gyeonggi Province transitioned the AI and Foot-and-Mouth Disease Disaster Safety Task Force, which it had operated for over four months since December of last year, into the AI Livestock Disease Prevention Task Force under the Department of Livestock and Forestry on the 19th.

This measure follows the notification of the closure of the Central AI Accident Response Task Force (headed by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) on the same day.

The Central AI Accident Response Task Force downgraded the AI crisis alert level from critical to cautionary on the 19th and converted the 'Central Accident Response Task Force' into the 'Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Disease Prevention Task Force.'

While the operation of the AI and Foot-and-Mouth Disease Disaster Safety Task Force has ended, the province plans to continue disease prevention measures through the end of May, when the special disease prevention period ends, including operating a situation room under the AI Livestock Disease Prevention Task Force and maintaining a 24-hour response system.

The province lifted all AI movement restrictions in the region on the 14th, five months after the outbreak of AI.

In Gyeonggi Province, following an AI outbreak in Yangju on November 20 of last year, AI cases have been confirmed at 123 farms across 14 cities and counties.