Overview
- Officials report 13 infected wild boar confined to the initial Collserola zone and no positives beyond 6 kilometers, with access restrictions across 91 municipalities extended as field teams survey the 6–20 km belt.
- Authorities clarify farm impacts: 55 holdings with 61,500 occupied places are under review and about 35,600 fattening pigs will be slaughtered for domestic sale, with no farm infections detected and no sanitary emptying ordered.
- Export prospects brighten as South Korea resumes imports using a 20‑kilometer carve‑out, the UK and China reopen with provincial regionalization, and talks continue with Japan and the Philippines.
- A commission of Catalan, Spanish and European experts will audit research centers to investigate the outbreak’s origin, with the laboratory hypothesis under review and officials stressing confidence in biosafety institutions.
- Regions step up wild‑boar control: Valencia will pay hunters €40 per boar targeting 50,000 animals and Aragón €30, while authorities urge the public to avoid restricted areas and report carcasses, noting about 1,400 related calls to emergency services.