BEIJING (Reuters) – The health government of Qingdao City in western China discovered coronavirus contamination in some packages stored through an importer of seafood after two of its handlers tested positive for the virus but showed no symptoms.
China has intensified controls on imports of frozen food and banned those of some meat processing plants abroad amid the global pandemic.
Thursday’s effects got control of the corporate staff regime, although neither of the 147 close contacts of the two men affected was positive, Qingdao Municipal Health Commission said in a statement.
The importer ‘s products and amenities generated 51 positive control results, but no infected product was released, the commission said, without identifying the parts or their origins.
Chinese customs has threatened to suspend imports of corporations with frozen food products for the virus for a week, and third-time offenders are punishable by up to 4 weeks.
Thick lines of the virus were discovered in the meat and seafood sections of a market in the capital, Beijing, which was the site of an epidemic in June.
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(Report via Colin Qian and Ryan Woo; Edited through Clarence Fernandez)