Macao has imposed a partial ban on poultry imports from Panyu
district of Guangzhou city in the Chinese mainland, according to an
official press release issued Tuesday.
The release issued by the Information Bureau quoted sources from
the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau as saying that the poultry
imports suspension will be only from an 8.5 km-radius of the
pandemic sources in the district.
The ban, which is to last for 21 days from Monday, will not
affect Macao's poultry market, as the Panyu district is not the
special administrative region's poultry supplier.
The outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed
thousands of ducks in Panyu.
(Xinhua News Agency September 19, 2007)