The Republic of Belarus has limited the supply of pork meat from the Lviv region due to the African swine fever, as reported by the Belta Belarussian news agency.

The report says that the country has temporarily restricted the import from this region of Ukraine of such categories as live pigs, zoos and circus animals of susceptible species, pork meat (including wild pigs), as well as other food raw materials for pig production and their products processing.

It is forbidden to import stubble, hooves, horns, as well as hunting trophies obtained from animals of susceptible species. All permits for the import of these products to Belarus from the Lviv region, issued earlier, have now been canceled.

Meanwhile, due to the large-scale outbreak of African swine fever in the farm of LLC Galichina-Zapad, not far from the village of Kavskoye, Lviv Region, all pigs on the farm, and more than 90 thousand of them will have to be destroyed.

Currently, an action plan is being implemented to eliminate and prevent the spread of ASF.

Four police posts from the State Food and Beverage Service are on duty at the site, and workers in the affected household are preparing to dispose of the carcasses of pigs. At the epicenter of the outbreak there are also two tents from the State Emergency Service.