14:18 Belarus bans poultry from Moscow region

Belarus has introduced a ban for the imports of poultry from Russia's Moscow province.

The imports of poultry from the Krasnodar province of Russia had already been banned by Belarus earlier. The ban is being imposed due to the bird flu cases confirmed by the Russian authorities in the Moscow province.


Belarus is set to buy shortly nearly 1 million tons of vaccine in order to complete vaccincation of the poultry livestock, according to Interfax.