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On Wednesday, Chinese media sowed hysteria after appearing to have misunderstood an advertisement through a local authority about a new case of coronavirus discovered in a batch of Ecuadorian shrimp.
Several media outlets in China, adding People’s Daily, China’s largest press organization and official Chinese government spokesman, reported pingxiang’s missive as “another positive detection in Ecuadorian shrimp packaging.”
Reports have been read thousands of times on Wechat and Weibo, two Chinese social media platforms.
Cui He, president of the China Aquatic Products Marketing and Processing Alliance (CAPPMA), China’s leading fishing industry body, told Undercurrent News that the data “confuses.”
“This is a repetition of the information reported in the past, not anything new,” he said. “There are no new positive cases.”
“It’s a mountain of a grain of sand,” CAPPMA President Undercurrent said.
Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila, Ecuador’s largest shrimp company, also had a positive pattern taken from inside a shipping container with its products. Imported shrimp produced after March 12 through the 3 corporations will have to be removed from the market and destroyed, the government said.
This week, Wechat’s official account in Pingxiang village, a medium-sized town in Central China’s Jiangxi Province, updated readers “on Ecuadorian shrimp purchases in our locality.”
The People’s Journal interpreted it as a recently detected case of coronavirus in Ecuadorian shrimp.
“The outer packaging of imported Ecuadorian frozen shrimp was retested for the new coronavirus,” his name said Wednesday.
The headline of the Economic Times, a Chinese man who covers economic news, said, “Warning! Another Ecuadorian shrimp pattern tested positive for coronavirus.”
“After Dalian and Xiamen, Pingxiang Jiangxi detected the new coronavirus in the outer packaging of Ecuador’s frozen white shrimp,” he said.
The Weibo user, known as Handsome Youth, said the reports were “too scary.”
“When you eat shrimp, be careful and check a little,” the post, which had more than 20,000 likes.
A WeChat user who commented on the People’s Journal report said, “Oh my God! It is vital to check all imported products carefully! The coronavirus is not resting.”
On Tuesday, Hunan Xingsheng Preferred E-commerce, the company to which Pingxiang had sold shrimp, said no shrimp product for sale on its platform had tested the coronavirus.
Xingsheng actively cooperates with government departments to perform self-inspection. Currently, Xingsheng has performed a thorough control of nucleic acids in the products, the warehouse and all warehouse staff. The effects of the check were all negative. Array Affected retail outlets and consumers are calm,” the company said in a statement.
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