Officials in the Chinese city of Shenzhen said Thursday that a batch of frozen bird wings imported from Brazil tested positive for coronavirus, which generated new considerations about contamination of frozen food packaging and a June concern around salmon in Beijing, but World Health Organization officials said later in the day that there is no evidence that the disease is spreading through the food or food packaging.
Officials said on a Chinese social media platform Weibo that the import had tested positive for the new coronavirus on Wednesday.
They did not call the brand, however, the government now seeks to insinuate other products that were sold through the company, while fitness officials in Shenzhen have tested and tracked other people who would possibly have been in contact with the product, all of whom have tried it. Negative.
Relatives still in the inventory also tested negative, but were sealed, according to the statement.
World Health Organization officials later said that day that they had not noticed evidence that coronavirus could be transmitted through food, and Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Emergency Programme, said: “People are not afraid of food, packaging or food processing. or home-cooked food. »
In June, the Beijing government conducted a further overhaul of imported food products, following an increase in cases similar to a seafood market in the capital. Traces of the virus were discovered in cutting forums used to cut salmon imported from the huge Xinfadi market, causing outlets and markets to clear their fish shelves. But experts concluded that salmon are unlikely to bring the virus, while lines of the virus have also been detected in 40 other samples on the market.
$3.1 million. Brazil has the current number of Covid-19 infections worldwide, after 5.2 million in the United States.
Also this week, officials from Anhui Province in eastern China discovered a coronavirus in the packaging of frozen shrimp imported from Ecuador, the most recent of a number of similar cases reported through Chinese state media. China suspended imports of frozen shrimp from Ecuador last month. The Chinese government urges the public to remain vigilant for imports of frozen meat and seafood. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the World Health Organization, have said that the threat of getting coronavirus from food is very low, and that the virus spreads basically through contact with infected droplets by coughing and sneezing.
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