South Korea reported its first case of African swine fever (ASF) in three months.

The ASF Central Disaster Management Headquarters, which is under the auspices of  the Agriculture Ministry, said on Sunday that pigs at a farm in Goseong, Gangwon Province were infected with the deadly animal disease.

The provincial government immediately sent two quarantine officials to assist in quarantine efforts and began to cull about 24-hundred pigs at the farm.

It is also setting up additional checkpoints in the Goseong area to contain the spread of the disease and issued a 48-hour travel ban on all pig farms in the province.

It is the first instance of ASF since a case was found at a pig farm in Yeongwol in the province on May 5.

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum instructed authorities to swiftly contain the spread of the disease in its initial stage by issuing a travel ban. The prime minister reportedly ordered local and related authorities to closely cooperate to swiftly cull the animals at the affected farm.