Deputy ministers have denied reports of foot-and-mouth disease and commented on the deaths of saiga antelopes.
Vice-ministers of agriculture and ecology of Kazakhstan have commented on information about the possible spread of foot-and-mouth disease and the mass die-off of saiga antelopes in the country. According to them, no cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been registered in Kazakhstan, and the recorded mortality of saiga antelopes is within the natural norm.