HK to lift ban

  • 23/01/1998

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

Hong Kong said on Friday it would end a ban on fresh chicken imports early next month as a "bird flu" outbreak which prompted the ban appears to have been contained.The Government would end the ban on the import of fresh chickens from February 7, said Mr. Michael Suen, head of a government task force fighting the virus which has so far killed six people and infected a dozen others.