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  • 05 Dec 2018, 09:09

 An interdepartmental working group on the elimination and non-proliferation of ASF in the country will be created In Russia. This initiative was expressed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev and was supported by Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev.

On November 28 the government held the first meeting of the permanent anti-epizootic commission chaired by Gordeev. As it was reported  the Ministry of Agriculture buys for the regions 75 names of medicines and drugs for diagnosing and prophylactic vaccination of animals against 23 especially dangerous diseases annually. And the costs are covered at the expense of the federal budget.

As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, a plan for the development of regulatory legal acts was approved, providing for approval by the end of 2019 of the code of directing for more than 30 infectious animal diseases.