According to the news agency, 4 million chickens and 1.2 million quails have been culled, in line with the country's law stipulating that poultry within a radius of three kilometres (1.9 miles) from farms exposed to the strain must be exterminated.
In late October, the Asian country registered new cases of the H5N8 flu in wild birds for the first time since 2018. So far, 29 cases of the flu have been detected in wild birds.
South Korea Culls 6.1Mln Poultry in Bid to Contain Outbreaks of Bird Flu, Reports Say
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Apart from South Korea, outbreaks of bird flu have also been recently confirmed in Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, northern Germany and Belgium.