BACOLOD CITY: Bacolod City, the capital city of Negros Occidental, can no longer claim to be free of African swine fever (ASF).

On Friday, blood samples from two pigs in a backyard piggery in Barangay Taculing tested positive for ASF. This is the first case of ASF in the city and the province since the outbreak was first reported in the Visayas in 2019.

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