MADRID – About one third of Spanish pork export certificates have been blocked after the first outbreak ​of swine fever for three decades, Spain’s agriculture minister said.

“Of the 400 export certificates to 104 countries, a third are blocked. We ‌are working to open them as quickly as possible,” Agriculture Minister Luis Planas told a press conference.

The virus, last recorded in Spain in 1994, was detected in six wild boar near Barcelona.

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