ENTRY of chicken dung in the Province of Benguet is suspended in lieu of the threats of both the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and Avian Flu.
Benguet Governor Melchor Diclas announced the suspension under Executive Order 2020-18 instructing all chicken dung delivery truckers and farm owners to immediately stop transportation of chicken dung from poultry farms in the lowlands effective immediately.
“All kinds of vehicles transporting chicken dung for use as fertilizers in various forms with the province are suspended,” the governor added.
Diclas said quarantine measures and checkpoints within the entry points are set to stop chicken dung entry.
The governor anchored the order to laboratory results confirming an outbreak of Avian Influenza Subtype H5N6 in Nueva Ecija which could possibly be transmitted to humans.
The order is also line with the declaration of the President placing the country under a state of Public Health Emergency by virtue of Proclamation No. 922 due to the confirmed local transmission cases of Covid-19.