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THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting to roll out vaccines for African Swine Fever (ASF) on Tuesday next week, according to Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an interview with the Malaca\u00f1ang Insider on Thursday, Laurel said the vaccine rollout will address the spread of ASF in several affected towns of Batangas and prevent further spread.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cLuckily iyong ating supplier nag-donate ng 2,000 doses at darating dito sa Biyernes at hopefully ang target namin is maumpisahan na iyong pagbakuna by Tuesday next week,\u201d Laurel said.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Laurel said they have been procuring the vaccines through the emergency procurement system. He added that the procurement could continue until next month.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eight municipalities in Batangas have declared a state of emergency, including Lobo, Lian, Calatagan, Rosario, Lipa, Talisay, San Juan, and Tuy.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Laurel assured the public that the DA is doing its best to control the spread.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTomorrow (Friday), we will have checkpoints or inspection stations set up in the affected areas \u2013 in the eight municipalities \u2013 to control the spread,\u201d Laurel said.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo, it\u2019s not that alarming because the vaccine is on the way. Hopefully, we can contain this. But, of course, it will not be easy, but we will do our best,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As this developed, the DA is strengthening the country\u2019s laboratories and research in a bid to locally manufacture vaccines in the near future.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n An indemnification program is also in place for the affected livestock sector, Laurel added.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThen we also have an indemnification program, and we are finalizing the policy for pork. Previously, if a pig with ASF was slaughtered, only P5,000 was given regardless of the size of the pig. Now, we\u2019ve created three classifications \u2013 there\u2019s one for piglets, one for medium-sized pigs, and one for larger pigs or breeders,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The indemnification rates are as follows: small pigs, P4,000; medium, P8,000; and large, P12,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting to roll out vaccines for African Swine Fever (ASF) on Tuesday next week, according to Agriculture Secretary Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}