The quarantine of the bird flu-hit spots in northeast China's Liaoning Province has all been lifted, the local government announced Thursday afternoon.

After 21-day isolation, the Heishan County, Beining City, Nanzhan New District of Jinzhou City, Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County, which reported bird flu outbreaks in succession since Nov.

3, were approved to lift the quarantine by the national headquarters of bird flu control, said Zhou Liyuan, head of the provincial bird flu control headquarters.

No new bird flu cases were reported in the last 21 days in the areas, which is the longest incubation period for the H5N1 avian flu virus, said Zhou, adding the epidemic zones had not reported any human bird flu case either.

At the Taihe market in Heishan County, Li Jingsheng, a chicken dealer, smiled when hearing the news about lifting the quarantine.

"Of course it's a good news, because I can sell chicken again,"said Li, who began to sell pork instead of chicken on Nov. 3 when the market banned chicken and egg sales.

"The most important thing for me to do now is to help my fellow villagers reduce their economic loss by raising livestock, like pigs, cattle or sheep," said Zhang Mingquan, head of the Duanjia Town in Heishan County.

Although the quarantine was lifted, veterinarians would continue to monitor the areas, said Zhou.

Liaoning has mobilized more than 20,000 veterinarians to help farmers inject vaccines for more than 300 million fowls.

In addition, to prevent villagers from being infected with the disease, medical workers were assigned to take all the villagers' temperature everyday and disinfect the all the bird flu-hit spots, said Zhou.

(Source: Xinhua)