MADRID, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla and Leon on Thursday passed a decree banning the killing of bulls outside a bullring.
The move will mean a major change to local festivals involving bulls, especially the controversial Toro de la Vega held in the town of Tordesillas in September.
In the event, a bull is pursued over open country by men on horseback before being speared to death. It has sparked protests by animal rights activists, who believe the tradition is both brutal and cruel and has no place in the 21st century.
Recent years have seen increasingly bitter clashes between those who defend the tradition and those who oppose it.
The decree passed on Thursday means bulls cannot be killed at the end of the chase during festivals such as the Toro de la Vega.
Animal rights activists highlight this doesn't mean the animal will necessarily be spared, given that it can be killed later in a bullring or simply put down. They say the long chase it endures before it collapses through exhaustion is cruel in itself.
Regional government spokesperson Rosa Valderon told the Spanish press that this year's Toro de la Vega will go ahead, but that the bull will not be speared to death.
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DAR ES SALAAM Sverige VM 2018 Fotbollströja , May 29 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian authorities said on Monday they have acquired facilities worth 750,000 U.S. dollars for screening people against the deadly Ebola disease.
Ummy Mwalimu, the east African nation's Minister for Health, said the facilities will be used to screen people at the country's entry points.
The move comes almost two weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
Two weeks ago Sverige Fotbollströja , the Tanzanian government dispatched a team of medical experts to six border regions in an effort to improve detection and information systems against the possible outbreak of the disease.
""The government has secured facilities for screening against Ebola, including four brand new and modern screening machines to be distributed at the country's entry points for screening people entering in the country."" Mwalimu told a news conference in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
She mentioned other facilities as gloves, special glasses and gowns to be used by experts who will be conducting the screening at the entry points, including airports Jacob Rinne Sverige Tröja , ports and border posts to ensure affected people were not allowed in the country.
""The government has also issued special forms to be used in registering Congolese who are entering into the country,"" said Mwalimu.
The minister said the government continued to collaborate with the WHO in monitoring and ensuring the disease did not enter into the country.
Reports by WHO said the possibility of the disease to spread into other neighboring countries including Tanzania was very minimal because the UN health agency in collaboration with the health ministry in DR Congo has put in place stern control measures to prevent the disease from spreading.
Among other measures, the Tanzanian government had modified its national laboratories in Mbeya and Dar es Salaam regions to test blood samples.
On May 12, the WHO declared an Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo where among nine people suspected to have contracted the deadly virus Kristoffer Nordfeldt Sverige Tröja , three died, with one case of Ebola confirmed through tests at the national laboratory in the capital Kinshasa, WHO Congo representative Allarangar Yokouide said in a statement.