Overview
- The agriculture ministry will vaccinate nearly one million additional bovines across eight South‑West departments, on top of about one million already inoculated at a reported cost of €20 million, and the minister will attend the launch on Monday.
- Highway disruptions persist with long stretches of the A64 closed between Toulouse and Bayonne and other roads affected, as authorities logged 43 actions involving roughly 2,000 demonstrators.
- The state’s protocol remains culling entire infected herds, restricting movements and ring vaccination, with gendarmes enforcing veterinary access in Doubs and Ariège and a herd in Touille (Haute‑Garonne) culled on Saturday without incident.
- Since June, 109 outbreaks have been detected in eight departments, with 107 declared extinguished and two active, according to the agriculture ministry.
- Unions are divided over strategy and a nationwide mandatory vaccination is warned to risk export curbs for live animals for around 14 months, while officials stress the vaccine’s protective effect comes only after three weeks.