He said three cases of bird flu have been detected so far, the latest discovered two days ago near Kampung Telibong in Tamparuli.
This was within five kilometres from where the avian influenza virus was first detected at a poultry farm in Kampung Kauluan on Aug 3.
The second case was detected three days ago in Kampung Loputung, also within the same surveillance area.
Wong said 30,105 fowls have been culled in Tuaran as of today, and no one has been infected by the virus so far.
“All of the cases are detected within the surveillance area and we have widened the area of operations ever since.
“The situation remains under control,” he said on the sidelines of the state assembly sitting today.
A total of 29,990 chickens and 3,500 eggs from two farms in Kampung Kauluan have been destroyed while another 1,150 chickens and ducks have been disposed of over the last 10 days.
Wong said, as a countermeasure, the state will import chickens if there was a shortage for the upcoming festivity.
At the same time, the state has banned the export of chickens to countries such as Brunei, Maldives, Hong Kong and Singapore for now, he said.
“They have immediately stopped buying chickens from us when the outbreak was declared on Aug 3,” he added.
Later, Wong said villagers whose poultry had to be culled to contain the bird flu outbreak would be compensated.
He said during an operation to control the spread of influenza, details of the affected villagers were recorded so that the state government could work out a compensation.
“We will discuss and decide on the compensation for the villagers.
“We have already set up an operations room to record and register our villagers and how many of their chickens that had been destroyed,” Bernama reported him as saying.