Beijing: The country which has been already going through coronavirus crisis, is now facing another epidemic, the bird flu. An outbreak of deadly bird flu has been reported in China’s Hunan Province on Sunday.
The outbreak occurred in a farm in the Shuangqing district of the Shaoyang City.
“The outbreak occurred in a farm in the Shuangqing district of Shaoyang City. The farm has 7,850 chickens and 4,500 of the chickens have died from the contagion. Local authorities have culled 17,828 poultry after the outbreak,”according to a statement by China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
By far no human cases of the Hunan H5N1 virus reported.
The outbreak comes in the midst of coronavirus crisis where already 304 people have lost their lives.
