The government announced on Tuesday that the Philippines was now free of the H5N6 strain of the avian influenza that struck a few poultry farms less than a year ago.
A vendor stands over rows of the slaughtered chickens for sale at her stall inside the Mutya ng Pasig Public Market in Pasig City on Jan. 19, 2020, when the Department of Agriculture announced that the Philippines is free of the bird flu that struck poultry farms in Luzon in mid-2020. PHOTO BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE