The UK is set to lose millions of pounds worth of poultry exports after a number of countries banned imports of British meat, live birds and hatching eggs following the outbreak of bird flu on a turkey farm in eastern England.

Ireland, Russia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Korea, Japan and Jersey announced bans on imports of poultry from the UK, which Defra, the food, agriculture and rural affairs department, said it expected to last until the UK had achieved “disease free status”.