China in another state of emergency as the country has been hit by ‘highly pathogenic’ bird flu in two provinces in China near Hubei amid tireless struggles to eradicate the deadly coronavirus currently ravaging the country.
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Media reports say some 1,840 fowls were killed by the H5N6 virus in Sichuan Province.
Meanwhile about 4,500 chickens had died separately of H5N1 bug in Hunan as of February 1, 2020. Chinese agricultural authority announced yesterday.
The latest outbreak in Sichuan took place at Xichong in Nanchong City, which is about 12 hours’ drive from Wuhan.
Meanwhile, local authorities amassed 2,261 birds as a result and safely disposed of their carcasses – as well as those of the birds killed by influenza – according to the notice.
The bird flu has been classified as highly pathogenic because of the number of birds that have died from the disease.Â
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Although the disease doesn’t easily infect humans and is hard to spread from human to human, several people have caught it around the world and died.
The reports of the bird flu outbreaks come as China is straining all its resources in a bid to curb the fast-spreading novel coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan late December and has killed at least 910 so far.
