The authorities of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen
have urged consumers to be on the alert when buying imported frozen food after
a sample of chicken wings from Brazil tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a statement on Thursday, the coronavirus was
discovered after the local disease control centres took a surface sample from a
batch of chicken wings while conducting routine screenings on imported frozen
food.
“On August 11th, Shenzhen Longgang District conducted
investigation and inspection of imported cold-chain food. On August 12th, the
provincial and municipal CDCs reviewed and found a surface sample of frozen
chicken wings imported from Brazil (registration number: SIF601; batch number:
7720051522) The new coronavirus nucleic acid test result was positive,” the
statement read.
Shenzhen’s health authorities also traced and tested
everyone who might have been exposed to the products.
“The results were all negative, and close contacts of
positive samples were included in health management; all relevant stock
products in the city were sealed and carried out Nucleic acid test results are
all negative,” it added.
“All products sold are traced and notified to relevant
agencies for disposal; the outer packaging and storage environment of relevant
products are all eliminated.”
The development comes at about the same time when traces of
the coronavirus were found on the packaging of shrimps imported from Ecuador,
another South American country.
“It is hard to say at which stage the frozen chicken got
infected,” Reuters quoted a China-based official at a Brazilian meat exporter
to have said.
The Chinese authorities have been stepping up screenings at
ports since June, after a coronavirus outbreak emerged from the largest
wholesale food market in Beijing.
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