Overview
- An independent six-member biosecurity committee has begun daily work to inspect facilities handling the virus within 20 kilometers of the Bellaterra focus, with IRTA CReSA denying any leak.
- Seprona and the Mossos are running a joint inquiry into the outbreak’s origin after the EU reference lab CISA-INIA identified a genetic group 29 virus related to the 2007 Georgia lineage.
- South Korea has accepted 20-kilometer regionalization for pork trade, China has restricted imports from the entire Barcelona province, and talks continue to secure terms with Japan and the Philippines.
- Producers report about €30 less per pig as prices fall despite detections being confined to wild boar and no cases in domestic herds.
- Political pressure builds as the transport federation demands an apology over the “sandwich” explanation and Junts files for a censure of the Govern and a parliamentary investigation.