According to the World Organization for Animal Health, smallpox has been reported in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Iraqi province of Baghdad.

The Food Safety Agency told APA that in order to protect the territory of the republic from infectious animal diseases that can pass from other countries, the WOAH According to the Code of Health of Terrestrial Animals, taking into account the principle of zoning, live poultry and hatching eggs, poultry meat, poultry meat and ready-made meat products from all types of poultry products (subject to destruction of avian influenza viruses) are subjected to thermal processing. except for the remaining goods), poultry feeds and feed additives for birds (excluding plant-derived feeds and feed additives obtained by chemical and microbiological synthesis),Temporary restrictions have been imposed on the import of equipment used for keeping, cutting and processing of birds, as well as the transit of live birds from the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the same administrative-territorial unit of the country.

At the same time, in order to strengthen control measures, the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan was requested to take appropriate measures for vehicles coming from or in transit from China and Iraq.