
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has directed officials to withdraw the ban on sale and import of chicken stocks as samples taken from the poultry markets tested negative for bird flu.
The CM also said that the poultry markets will reopen.
The CM tweeted on Thursday:
Samples taken from poultry markets have tested negative with respect to Bird Flu.
Have directed to open the poultry market & withdraw the orders to restrict trade & import of chicken stocks.
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 14, 2021
The 100 samples taken from the Ghazipur poultry mandi which is also Asia’s largest chicken market, tested negative for Avian influenza.
The samples taken from crows and ducks in Delhi tested positive which led to the restriction on sale of processed and packaged chicken brought from outside the city. The government had also shut down the poultry market for 10 days as a precautionary measure.
Senior Animal Husbandry Unit officer Rakesh Singh said, “Test results of 104 samples arrived on Wednesday evening. Of these, 100 samples were collected from 35 poultry birds in the Ghazipur market. All samples have tested negative for bird flu.”
“It means there is no spread of avian influenza in poultry birds in Delhi,” he said.
He added that the remaining four samples of Heron birds were taken from the Hastsal Park and bird flu is suspected in these four cases, these samples have been sent from a Jalandhar-based lab to Bhopal for confirmation.