The quarantine set in Khentii, Dornod and Sukhbaatar provinces to curb the spread of foot-and-mouth disease is to be lifted.  The State Emergency Commission of Mongolia organized a meeting on the foot-and-mouth disease situation in the eastern provinces, to discuss the results of measures taken against the spreading of the disease and to decide any further actions on the issue on Wednesday April 2nd.

Since the foot-and-mouth livestock infectious disease was discovered in Ongon sum in Sukhbaatar province on January 27th, it spread through a total of 13 sums in three provinces including six sums in Sukhbaatar, one sum in Khentii province and six provinces in Dornogovi province. So far 3454 cattle have been destroyed and 4.5 million livestock have been vaccinated due to spread of infectious disease.

No more cattle have been found to have the disease in the past 11-41 days. Thus the quarantine and restriction that had been in place in Khentii, Sukhbaatar and Dornod are to be lifted while Ikhkhet and Dalanjargalan sums in Dornogovi province are still under control by Provincial Emergency Commission.

Any domestic migration is prohibited for at least two months and the transportation of animal related products will be allowed on the basis of disinfection and decontamination.