“…Since the first confirmed outbreak of ASFV in China in 2018, the disease has also spread to Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea (Dem People's Rep. of), Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Korea (Rep. of), Timor‐Leste, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and India (Vergne et al., 2020). In Vietnam, the first ASF outbreak in Hung Yen province was confirmed by the Department of Animal Health in February 2019 (Tran, Truong, Dang, et al., 2020; Tran, Truong, Ly, et al., 2020) and an official report was submitted immediately to World Organization of Animal Health (OIE). After seven months, the disease spread to the entire country and approximately six million pigs on infected farms had been culled, suggesting the socio‐economic impact of the disease (Truong et al., 2020).…”