Beijing/Shanghai: Two Chinese cities discovered lines of the new coronavirus in frozen food and imported food packaging, the local government said Thursday, raising fears that shipments of infected food could lead to further outbreaks.
A pattern taken from the surface of frozen bird wings imported from Brazil in the southern city of Shenzhen, as well as packaging patterns of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp sold in the northwestern city of Xian, tested positive for the virus, the local government said Thursday.
The findings came a day after COVID-19 guilty coronavirus lines were discovered in Ecuador’s frozen shrimp package in the city of eastern Anhui province. China has intensified port controls due to considerations of food imports.
Shenzhen’s fitness government tracked and tested who would possibly have been in contact with potentially infected food products, and all effects were negative, according to the city’s opinion.
The Brazilian embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters could not immediately reach the Ecuadorean embassy in Beijing.
“It is difficult to know at what level the frozen bird was infected,” said a Chinese-based official of a Brazilian meat exporter.
The Shenzhen Bureau of Outbreak Control and Prevention said the public will need to take precautions to reduce the threat of infection with imported meat and shellfish.
The fitness commission in Shannxi Province, where the city of Xian is located, said the government was testing other people and the surrounding area in a similar way to infected shrimp products sold at a local market.
In addition to controlling all meat and seafood boxes entering primary ports in recent months, China has suspended some imports of meat of origin, adding Brazil, since mid-June.
The first COVID-19 instance organization similar to Huanan seafood market in Wuhan City. Early studies have indicated that the virus comes from animal products sold on the market.
Li Fengqin, who runs a microbiology lab at China’s National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, told reporters in June that the option of infected frozen foods that cause new infections could simply be ruled out.
Viruses can last up to two years at temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius, however, scientists say that to date there is no falsified evidence that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can spread through frozen foods.
The Xinfadi market in Beijing, the Chinese capital, a sprawling food market connected to cluster infections in June, where the virus discovered on the cutting board on which imported salmon was handled, will reopen from the weekend.
It remains to be determined how the virus entered the Xinfadi market position at the top, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest research update in July.
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