Temporary restrictions have been imposed on Western Pomerania, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony and Uckermark as of 27 January, following the outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 strain in Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, Saxony-Anhalt.

Uckermark’s restrictions are justified because the area is in a quarantined zone and lies in close proximity to the outbreak, said Russian animal and plant surveillance organisation Rosselkhoznadzor.

The regions of Osnabrück, Emsland, Vechta, Graftschaft Bentheim (Lower Saxony), Greiz (Thuringia), Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis (Baden-Wurtenberg) have seen restriction lifted.