Reuters reports that samples taken from the surface of frozen bird wings imported into the southern city of Shenzhen from Brazil, as well as samples of frozen Ecuadorian shrimp packaging sold in the northwestern city of Xian, tested positive for the virus, the Chinese local government said.
The Shenzhen government recognized that the bird comes from a factory owned by Aurora, Brazil’s third largest poultry and pork exporter.
As COVID-19 cases were shown to continue to accumulate worldwide, the findings raise new considerations that the coronavirus that causes the disease would possibly spread across surfaces and enter the food chain. A day earlier, officials began investigating whether the first instances of COVID-19 in New Zealand in more than 3 months had been imported by freight.
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