Overview
- Authorities report 13 infected wild boar and no cases in the 55 farms inside the control area, with a 20‑kilometre perimeter and access bans covering 91 municipalities through December 14.
- The government and producers will move healthy pigs to slaughter for domestic consumption, with an initial plan for about 30,000 animals and a wider count indicating roughly 80,000 within the zone; officials stress pork is safe to eat.
- Roughly 1,000 personnel are enforcing restrictions through 79 checkpoints with an inform‑first approach, and Mossos d'Esquadra and Guardia Civil have opened a joint inquiry into the outbreak’s origin.
- President Salvador Illa has ordered audits of up to five laboratories handling the virus and announced an initial €10 million aid package tied to job retention, as EU advisers discourage uncontrolled wild‑boar culls.
- Agriculture Minister Luis Planas says the situation appears encapsulated and the next 15 days will be decisive, while experts expect fuller genetic sequencing to clarify the origin.