The festival "Invasion 2011" canceled?

Acting governor of the Tver region Andrei Shevelev on Tuesday in a letter to the organizers of the rock festival "Invasion" in which he. The impossibility to conduct the event in the region due to the outbreak of African swine fever, the press center of the regional administration The festival, an annual gathering of more than 100 million viewers will, from July 8 to 10 instead. On Monday Tver authorities only offered to cancel it. Spokesman of the "invasion" Yuri said then Dontsov RIA Novosti that the festival will take place as planned, and the withdrawal of the concert organizers have not yet been reported. "On Tuesday, sent the acting governor of the Tver region Andrei Shevelev a letter to the organizers of the" invasion ", which refers to the inability of the festival," - said in a statement. The corresponding decision was region of the Commission for the Prevention and Emergency Response and Fire Protection Tver. "The festival is visited by people from different regions of Russia, from the center to the Far East, we can not allow the infection could get into other parts of the country." - Cited Press Center Sheveleva. How can RIA Novosti press-secretary of the Rosselkhoznadzor Tver and Pskov regions Catherine Konyukhov ASF virus to humans, animals, insects, rodents, which were transferred into the disease outbreak or infected area. In addition, support for himself, he is not a threat. The current situation in the Tver region with the spread of African swine fever remains difficult. Local administration imposed on 16 June quarantine in a number of areas, because the village Khotilovo Bologovsky area doctors discovered a hotbed of African swine fever (ASF). Quarantine is within 150 km of the outbreak of the infection. The case of ASF in Khotilovo was third in the field: early June plague virus in swine, who died in the village Danilovskoe Kalinin district, and before Rosselkhoznadzor reported an outbreak detected on a pig farm in Torzhok.