00:00While preparing for the start of the vaccination against African Swine Fever,
00:04the ASF continues to prevent pigs that may have symptoms.
00:08Bernadette Reyes was on the scene.
00:14This truck driver stole the checkpoint of the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry and Quezon City LGU
00:22in Mindanao Avenue, Quezon City.
00:24We were chased there.
00:26We were brought back with the police.
00:28We were traced there.
00:30He has no license.
00:32I have no reason to run away.
00:34Because my papers are complete.
00:36All the checkpoints that we passed,
00:38even the police, they stopped us.
00:42This truck driver is a swine fever.
00:44He came from San Juan, Batangas
00:46and was directed by the authorities
00:48to this checkpoint.
00:51Some pigs have symptoms
00:53that are one of the possible symptoms
00:55of African Swine Fever.
00:57He was brought to the house
00:59to test if it is positive in the ASF.
01:02As a precaution,
01:04the farm director is the one
01:06who gets the pigs.
01:08We make sure that the farms
01:10that we get are certified
01:12that they have papers
01:14to make sure.
01:16Despite this,
01:18the pigs are still being sold
01:20at the Bloomentreet Market.
01:22It's really hard.
01:24It's really hard.
01:26If there are pigs left,
01:28we just need to get rid of one
01:30so that it won't be wasted.
01:32According to the Agriculture Department,
01:34many hog raisers have expressed
01:36that they want to vaccinate
01:38their pigs.
01:40On the first week of September,
01:42the controlled vaccination is expected to start.
01:44One vial is 50 doses.
01:46We need to group them
01:48in groups of 50
01:50so that when we vaccinate them,
01:52it won't be wasted.
01:54But before we vaccinate them,
01:56we will look at the blood
01:58of the pigs that will be vaccinated
02:00so that we can know
02:02if they have the virus
02:04or not.
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02:08Bernadette Reyes,
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