COVID-19 virus reported for first time on locally-produced food in E China
Pub Date:2020-12-18 09:11
Source:Global Times
The outer packaging of a batch of domestically-produced chicken drumsticks returned positive nucleic acid test results, Lai an county in Chuzhou of East China s Anhui Province confirmed on Wednesday. The incident marks the first time that COVID-19 was reported on local cold chain food products from local sources in China.
The case was found in Wuxi of East China s Jiangsu Province, instead of Chuzhou, a staff from Chuzhou s epidemic control team told the Global Times on Wednesday. Wuxi s epidemic control team issued a letter asking Chuzhou to help with the investigation, he said.
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China finds virus on domestically produced frozen food for 1st time 2 minutes read
Shanghai, China, Dec 16 (efe-epa).- The authorities of the city of Chuzhou, in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, announced Wednesday that they have found Covid-19 on the packaging of frozen chicken.
This is the first time that SARS-CoV-2 has been detected on non-imported frozen products, according to official media reports.
China, on several occasions, has claimed to have detected the virus on the packaging of frozen food imported from other countries.
The latest instance of this was on Tuesday, when the authorities of Chongqing said they had detected the virus on the packaging of a shipment of frozen beef imported from Argentina, part of which had already been sold in various parts of this central municipality.
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