Outlining the strategy and timelines for vaccination, Steenhuisen said the department will prioritise high-risk zones, with the goal of reaching 80 percent coverage in targeted cattle populations, especially the communal areas and up to 10 percent in feedlots and dairy cows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe objective is to, within 12 months, reduce outbreak incidents by 70 percent in high-risk provinces, preserve FMD-free provinces and to buffer vaccinations and strict movement controls.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said high-quality vaccines with high potency will be used during the campaign. Over the last month, Steenhuisen said the department had been engaging with vaccine manufacturers around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A local production line which will initially produce 20,000 doses per week has also been activated. The production will scale up to a capacity of 960,000 doses. A task team has also been formed to deal with the scourge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strategy we are employing is not a temporary patch; it is a comprehensive control and eradication programme,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n
Interventions in the high-risk provinces will include immediate mass vaccination, which will be repeated within three months. By-annual campaigns will be launched at border hotspots in parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo where recurring infections occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outlining the strategy and timelines for vaccination, Steenhuisen said the department will prioritise high-risk zones, with the goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-237469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}