Epizootia: Vienna closes border with Hungary and Slovakia

Strengthening border controls due to fears of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary and Slovakia. To prevent the disease from entering Austria, 24 small border crossings with Hungary and Slovakia have been closed since Saturday at midnight.

Slovakia will resume border controls with Hungary and Austria from Tuesday due to foot-and-mouth disease, which will last until May 7. The government in Bratislava decided on Monday. According to Agriculture Minister Richard Takáč, Slovakia will also close 17 small border crossings with Hungary and Austria. The Slovak police have informed that it will no longer be possible to transport animals and other designated goods to the Czech Republic via…

Prague - Minister of Agriculture Marek Výborný (KDU-ČSL) expects that due to controls against the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, queues will form at the Slovak-Czech border in the coming week. In today's Partie program on CNN Prima News, he said that the disease has not yet been confirmed in the Czech Republic, nor were any suspicions raised over the weekend. However, the risk of spread is huge given the dynamics of the disease spreading in S…