South Korea will complete the vaccination of local pig farms this week to prevent the further spread of foot-and-mouth disease, the government said Thursday.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has been inoculating pigs across the nation with A-type FMD vaccines, with the inoculations set to be completed by Saturday.
The ministry has stepped up quarantine efforts against the animal disease following this year's first outbreak at a hog farm in Gimpo, west of Seoul, on March 2. Since then, over 10,000 pigs have been culled across the nation.