The Odesa Regional Veterinary Service has confirmed the presence of H5N1 avian influenza in dead birds at the Odesa zoo, reports "Fakty, ICTV."
The Odesa City Council executive committee, urgently convened by Mayor Eduard Hurvits, decided to declare the zoo an area closed to visitors and to urgently relocate 1,500 birds to other enclosures.
The city executive committee also decided to temporarily close the city poultry market.
According to Hurvits, executive committee members decided to allocate 150,000 hryvnias to the zoo for priority work – moving the birds to other enclosures. Another 700,000 hryvnias, the mayor added, will evidently have to be allocated, on specialists' recommendations, for other urgent measures to prevent the spread of avian influenza in the city.