Lamitan tightens quarantine measures as city sees ASF spreading to more villages

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Furigay ordered quarantine checkpoints in the affected barangays to stop the entry and exit of live pigs, pork, and related products to contain the spread of ASF. Lamitan is a sixth-class component city of Basilan province, with 45 villages and a population of 100,150 as of the 2020 census. He said the blood samples were taken from swine whose owners had reported mysterious animal deaths at that time.

“They raise and sell pigs to send their children to school and to raise money for other purposes like weddings, fiestas, and Christmas celebrations. It’s their piggy bank for their children’s enrollment and graduation,” he said.Among those affected were Ricardo Enricoso, 51, and his wife Jenny, 31, who own aRicardo said their sow and 12 of their 15 piglets had died from ASF, while three remaining piglets had already weakened.

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