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VIGAN CITY: Gov. Deogracias Victor Savellano has
ordered the setting up of a quarantine station in Barangay Bio,
Tagudin, to ensure that all animals being shipped to the province
are healthy.
Savellano issued the order in the
wake of the outbreak of hog cholera in Pampanga and Bulacan that may
spread here through hogs being brought in by traders.
“We are now airing over the
radio the preventive measures we are now undertaking against this
animal disease,” Savellano said.
He said the quarantine station
will be manned by personnel of the provincial government, provincial
veterinary office, the municipality of Tagudin, local policemen, the
Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College, members of the community and
involvement service and officials and watchmen of Barangay Bio,
Tagudin town.
Savellano asked Vice-Governor
Jerry Singson and provincial board member Gerry Lahoz to assist in
the creation of the quarantine checkpoint in Tagudin.
“Barangay Bio, which is the
boundary between La Union province and Ilocos Sur, is the best place
to establish the quarantine, considering that it is the gateway to
Ilocandia,” he said.
Savellano also plans to put up
quarantine checkpoints at the boundaries of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos
Sur, and of Abra province.
--PNA
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