Gandhinagar: State Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Minister Raghavji Patel informed the press that more than 1240 cattle have died due to Lumpy Skin Disease till Saturday and more than 5.74 lakh animals have been vaccinated so far.

“The viral infection has spread to 17 out of 33 districts in the state, and most of them are in the Saurashtra region,” he said.

Minister informed that the affected districts include Kutch, Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Rajkot, Porbandar, Morbi, Surendranagar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Botad, Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Banaskantha, Patan, Surat, Aravalli, and Panchmahal.

As many as 50,328 affected cattle have been treated across 1746 villages of the affected districts, the minister said.

To control the spread of the virus the Gujarat government has banned the movement of cattle and fairs through a notification dated 26th July, the official release said.

A committee under the chairmanship of district collectors will be formed to control and monitor the disease in the affected districts. Officials of the local administration and chairpersons of the district milk producers’ cooperative unions will also be part of these committees, the government release stated.

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