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Pork prices expected to double during Dragon Boat Festival as Hong Kong slaughterhouse reopens following swine fever shutdown

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The price of pork is expected to more than double at Hong Kong’s markets on Friday with the meat in high demand during the Dragon Boat Festival and the city’s main slaughterhouse reopening following a shutdown caused by African swine fever.The government shut Sheung Shui slaughterhouse last Friday night, its second closure in a month, after health authorities detected the virus in a dead pig. The animal had been imported from Meizhou in the mainland Chinese province of Guangdong.Thousands of…

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