The city of Lanzhou in western China announced today, Saturday, that it has detected the new Corona virus in one of the packages of a shipment of frozen shrimp (shrimp) imported from an Arab country, at a time when China is stepping up checks for frozen foods.
The emerging corona virus has its scientific name “SARS Cove 2 2”, and it is the cause of “Covid-19”.
The Lanzhou Municipal Health Committee said in a statement on its website that it had found one positive sample on Friday on the internal package of frozen shrimp imported from Saudi Arabia, which crossed from the customs of the coastal city of Tianjin.
The statement stated that the authorities temporarily closed the cold storage facility in Lanzhou, where the case was discovered, and all its employees underwent corona examinations, while the rest of the concerned shipment was seized and the locations of all that were sold were determined.
The committee stated that the shipment entered the country on October 21 and arrived in Lanzhou on November 8.
The World Health Organization says that the risk of contracting “Covid-19 from frozen foods is low, but China has repeatedly warned of this after the virus was discovered in imported food products, which leads to an import ban from time to time.”These were the details of the news China finds Corona virus in a shipment of shrimp from an… for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
Source : Al Khaleej News
