BEIJING (Reuters) – The port city of Tianjin in northern China said Sunday that it plans to test some refrigerated garage services and after a shown case of coronavirus involving an employee who treated frozen red meat imported from Germany.
The patient, a 38-year-old worker at a frozen goods company in the city’s new Binhai area, had treated Red Meat products from Germany on November 4, the local government announced.
Authorities cordoned off the refrigerated garage facility and contacted 3 districts where bloodless chain food was shipped. Those who treated the inflamed employee’s nearby products and contacts came back negative. Testing of citizens in the neighborhood where he lives continues.
The case was discovered after the city of Dezhou in eastern Shandong Province informed Tianjin on Saturday that the outer packaging of a batch of German red meat had tested positive for coronavirus.
A Tianjin government official said 28. 1 tons of frozen red meat imported from Germany arrived at Tianjin port on October 19, the shipment was unloaded in a bloodless room on November 4 and transported to Dezhou city on November 5. The domain will now be tested.
On the other hand, the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, northern China, said Saturday that frozen belt fish imported to Tianjin from India tested positive for the virus, state media reported on Sunday.
Several bloodless chain products imported into China have tested coronavirus in recent months.
Chinese customs announced that they would suspend imports from companies for a week if frozen food products were Array and for one month if a supplier’s products were for the third time or more.
(Report through Lusha Zhang and Norihiko Shirouzu; Edited through Mike Harrison)