Overview
- The department will vaccinate herds immediately across affected areas and repeat within three months, targeting 100% coverage in feedlots and dairy, 90% in commercial herds and 80% in communal herds.
- High-risk zones, including parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo, will get biannual campaigns, with priority efforts in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape and continued protection-zone vaccination.
- Nearly two million animals have been vaccinated since April last year as the outbreak spans eight provinces, with the Northern Cape still without a reported case.
- A 24-member task team of government and private veterinary specialists will steer the rollout alongside expanded surveillance of wildlife, markets and abattoirs.
- A cabinet memorandum will request a state-of-disaster declaration to enable policing of movement controls, the key to curbing spread, with authorities targeting a 70% reduction in high-risk provinces within 12 months.