According to the press release just released by the Hong Kong SAR government, the Food Safety Center of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on the 10th that, according to the World Organization for Animal Health, an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza occurred in Alexandria, Virginia, and the restricted area was extended to Arlington County and Fairfax County, Virginia. The center immediately instructed the industry to suspend the import of poultry meat and poultry products (including poultry eggs) from these areas, To protect the local public health in Hong Kong. A spokesman for the Centre said that according to the data of the Statistics Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong imported about 16320 tons of chilled and chilled poultry meat and about 228.8 million eggs from the United States last year. The Center has contacted the United States authorities on the above-mentioned events, and will continue to pay close attention to the news of the outbreak of avian influenza issued by the World Organization for Animal Health and relevant authorities, and take appropriate actions in response to the development of the local epidemic. (Xinhua News Agency)