Prevent Bird Flu From Entering Jakarta, Livestock Entering Jakarta Must Have A Health Certificate

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Head of the DKI Jakarta Food, Maritime and Fisheries Security Service (DKPKP) Suharini Eliawati said that her party had efforts to prevent the H5N1 virus, or the bird flu entering Jakarta.

Eli said that all livestock, including poultry distributed for sale and consumption in Jakarta, must include a health certificate for these animals.

"Because everything is in safe control here and there is no red zone, so we can only provide a policy for animals entering Jakarta with administrative documents, namely an animal health certificate," Eli said when contacted, Thursday, March 9.

Along with that, the DKI Provincial Government cooperates with universities in providing socialization and education to business actors to always carry out biosecurity or protection for harmful effects from organisms such as diseases and pests.

"We provide communication, information, and education back to all business actors to always carry out biosecurity because that is the most important thing to do," he said.

In addition, Eli asked livestock owners to immediately contact the DKI Jakarta KPKP Service and the DKI Jakarta Health Office if there are symptoms of bird flu such as sudden deaths in their poultry.

As previously reported, the Hong Kong Health Authority found a new case of H5N6 type of bird flu that befell a 49-year-old man living in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China.

The man had previously been in contact with live poultry before experiencing some symptoms, according to the Hong Kong Health Protection Center (CHP) as quoted by local Chinese media on Saturday.

The man first developed symptoms on December 17, 2022 and four days later received treatment at the hospital. Currently his condition is very serious, said the CHP, which is under the auspices of the Hong Kong Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, the Class I Port Health Office (KKP) of Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Soetta) is increasing supervision of the entry of people from abroad to Indonesia through the airport following the findings of the H5N1 Bird Flu case in Cambodia.

Since last January until now, dozens of birds have died suddenly in a number of areas, such as South Kalimantan and West Java. However, there have been no cases of bird flu that have been transmitted to Indonesia from this incident.