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**sharon sanders** · November 7, 2020, 11:11 PM

A cold storage worker in Tianjin has a positive nucleic acid, and the outer packaging of imported frozen food from the two places has tested positive

2020-11-08 10:42:43 Reporter: Sha Xueliang Editor: Wu Jiaoying Bai Shuang

Since November 6, Dezhou, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi, respectively, have tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid from the outer packaging of frozen food imported through Tianjin.

Imported frozen food reproduced positive nucleic acid tests.

Since November 6, Dezhou, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi, respectively, have tested positive for the new coronavirus nucleic acid from the outer packaging of frozen food imported through Tianjin.

The Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters issued a news early this morning. After receiving the notification, it immediately sealed off relevant cold storage in Binhai New Area and Dongli District. After investigation, one cold storage worker was positive and the door handle was positive, and the other cold storage is still under urgent investigation.

Shandong tested positive for pork knuckle packaging before importing to Germany

On November 7, the Dezhou Municipal Government of Shandong announced that on the same day, during the routine random inspection of imported cold chain foods in Decheng District, Dezhou City, a sample of the outer packaging of imported frozen pork products sold to the district on November 6 was found. The nucleic acid test was positive. The local area immediately launched an emergency plan for the prevention and control of cold chain food epidemics. All frozen pork products and transportation vehicles involved have been sealed up, products and the environment have been eliminated, all close contacts have been quarantined, nucleic acid testing has been carried out simultaneously, and all quarantined Personnel test results were all negative.

Immediately afterwards, the Prevention and Control Headquarters of Raoyang County, Hengshui, Hebei issued a notice on November 7 that at 10 o'clock that day, the Market Bureau of Raoyang County received a report on the epidemic situation in Decheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province. Before freezing in Germany, the outer packaging of pork knuckles tested positive for nucleic acid. Liu Moumou, the driver of the food truck involved, went to Raoyang for delivery on November 6 and went to a restaurant for dinner.

After receiving the notification, the Raoyang County Epidemic Headquarters immediately organized the County Marketing Bureau and the County CDC to form a joint investigation team. After investigation, the company's goods sent to Raoyang were domestic chicken legs, chicken breasts, duck wings and other products. Nothing was found. This batch of German pork knuckles before freezing. Nucleic acid samples were taken from 5 aquatic products stores and units involved, 1 restaurant related staff, food, environment, etc., and the tests were all negative.

Nucleic acid positive for a cold storage worker in Tianjin Binhai New Area

This batch of imported frozen food from Dezhou, Shandong comes from Tianjin Binhai New Area.

On November 7th, Tianjin Binhai New Area received a notification from Dezhou City, Shandong Province. Tianjin immediately launched an emergency plan and immediately organized professional forces to deal with frozen food, cold storage, and transportation vehicles related to Hailian cold storage in Sino-Singapore Eco-city. Carry out nucleic acid tests, carry out nucleic acid tests on close contacts and close contacts of close contacts and quarantine them.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on November 8, the Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters announced that after preliminary investigation, a cold storage loading and unloading worker and a cold storage door handle tested positive for nucleic acid in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Hailian cold storage in Binhai New Area. The test results of other personnel and environmental samples were negative.

At present, the stevedore has been sent to a designated hospital. Nucleic acid testing and virus tracing work for related close contacts is underway.

The outer packaging of frozen food imported from a cold zone in Dongli District, Tianjin to Shanxi was positive for nucleic acid

According to a report from the Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters early this morning, on the afternoon of November 7, Tianjin also received a notification from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, that a local company found a positive nucleic acid test for the new coronavirus in the outer packaging of frozen food imported through Tianjin Port.

This batch of frozen food involves another cold storage in Tianjin.

After receiving the report, the Tianjin Municipal Disease Control and Prevention Department conducted an emergency investigation on the relevant personnel of a cold storage in Dongli District, cold chain food and environmental samples in the cold storage. As of this morning, the relevant nucleic acid test results were all negative.

At present, the cold storage involved has been sealed, and the flow of the above-mentioned cold chain food has been notified to relevant provinces and cities.

Joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council:
Strictly disinfect the outer packaging of cold chain food from high-risk areas

On October 17 this year, during the traceability investigation of Qingdao's new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention detected live viruses from positive samples of imported frozen food packaging carried by workers. This is the first time that the new coronavirus has been isolated on the outer packaging of cold chain food in the world. It is confirmed that the new coronavirus can survive on the outer packaging of items for a long time under cold chain transportation conditions.

On October 26, the State Council issued two technical guidelines in response to the joint prevention and control mechanism of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, proposing to establish a health registration system and health abnormality reporting procedures for employees of cold chain food production and operation enterprises, and require The country's cold chain food packaging is strictly disinfected.

Relevant departments in Beijing recently required that from November 1, 2020, all imported cold chain food production and business units in Beijing must truthfully upload imported frozen meat, aquatic product sources, and flow directions on the "Beijing Cold Chain" platform Data, implement electronic traceability code assignment, paste code, etc. No sales without traceability data.

Prior to this, Beijing and other places have implemented 100% nucleic acid testing on imported cold chain foods.

At the Beijing Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Conference held on September 2, Gao Ruifeng, Deputy Commissioner of Beijing Customs, introduced that Beijing Customs strictly supervises imported cold-chain food and treats all cold-chain food imported from Beijing ports and from high-risk countries ( Area) other commodities, 100% of the external packaging, cargo sampling and nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus.

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**sharon sanders** · November 8, 2020, 01:14 PM

Tianjin: 1 new locally confirmed case, quickly entering wartime state

Release time: 11-0816:55

This afternoon, Tianjin held a press conference on epidemic prevention and control. It was reported at the meeting that from 18:00 on November 7 to 8:00 on November 8, Tianjin had a newly confirmed local case. It was a loading and unloading worker of Tianjin Hailian Frozen Food Co., Ltd., and it was a common case with no history of contact with suspected cases. Tianjin quickly entered a wartime state and cooperated with the Health Commission and other relevant departments to implement early detection, early reporting, early isolation, early treatment, and centralized treatment measures.

On November 8, Tianjin City held a press conference to report in detail about the occurrence of a newly confirmed local case.
The case is a loading and unloading worker of Tianjin Hailian Frozen Food Co., Ltd.
The reporter learned from the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention that from 18:00 on November 7 to 8:00 on November 8, 1 new confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia in Tianjin has been reported. A total of 138 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia have been reported, including 75 males and 63 females. Cases: 1 case was in the hospital (common type), 134 cases were cured and discharged, and 3 cases died.
The 138th local confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia, male, 38 years old, lives in Hangu Street, Binhai New District, Tianjin. He is a loading and unloading worker of Tianjin Hailian Frozen Food Co., Ltd. (that is, the person who reported positive nucleic acid test earlier by the news media). The patient had a history of contact with imported cold chain foods and no history of going out 14 days before the onset of illness. There is no doubt that the patient has a history of contact with a confirmed case, and has no contact with patients with fever or respiratory symptoms. The patient participated in the company's imported frozen food handling work on November 4. On November 7, Dezhou City, Shandong Province notified the batch of frozen foods that the outer packaging specimens of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test were positive. After receiving the notification, the patient was transferred from the 120 ambulance to the centralized isolation medical observation point in Binhai New Area, and throat swabs were collected for the new coronavirus nucleic acid test; at 2 o'clock on the 8th, the new coronavirus nucleic acid test was positive, that is, the 120 ambulance Transfer to Haihe Hospital. Chest CT showed: the upper lobes of the lungs, the middle lobes of the right lungs, and the lower lobes of the lungs had ground-glass shadows and consolidation. The city’s expert group confirmed the 138th local case in Tianjin, which was classified as ordinary.
After investigation, it was found that 11 people in Tianjin with a history of common exposure were negative for the first new coronavirus nucleic acid test; the 8 close contacts that had been determined were isolated for medical observation and nucleic acid testing, and the results were all negative. Other relevant contacts are being investigated and their workplaces and residences have been terminally disinfected. At present, the cold storage has been sealed and controlled, and the nucleic acid sampling of 156 people in the building where it lives has been completed (the results are to be released). The staff is sampling the nucleic acids of other residents in the community one by one.
Tianjin Customs: Go all out to do a good job in the supervision of imported cold chain food at ports
Tianjin Customs Party Committee Member and Deputy Commissioner Hou Jinpo introduced that Tianjin Customs, in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and in accordance with the deployment arrangements of the General Administration of Customs and Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters, will go all out to monitor the risks of cold chain food entering the Tianjin port. Work, now make a report on the relevant situation:
Tianjin Port is an important import port for cold chain food in the country. Among them, imported frozen meat accounts for nearly one third of the national meat imports. From the data point of view, from January to September this year, Tianjin Port imported 2.176 million tons of frozen products through general trade, worth 50.2 billion yuan, an increase of 38.2% and 48.7% respectively.
In accordance with the requirements of the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism and the deployment of the General Administration of Customs and Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters, Tianjin Customs has carried out risk monitoring of key imported commodities. As of November 6, nearly 140,000 samples of imported goods, inner packaging, outer packaging, and container carriers have been tested for nucleic acid, all of which are negative.
In the context of increasing import volume, Tianjin Customs has strictly performed supervision work. Strict regulatory requirements, and strictly follow the relevant operating specifications and instructions to carry out imported cold chain food monitoring and disinfection operations. Coordinate all forces and go all out to fight the port blocking war. The entire customs area will transfer personnel to enrich the front-line inspection and laboratory testing capabilities. The front-line personnel and on-site customs will work for 7 days. When the business volume increases suddenly, they will work overnight to ensure that the inspection is completed within 24 hours after sampling. Strictly do personal protection. Scientifically formulate protection requirements, and strictly supervise and urge on-site sampling, sample delivery, and supervision of operation site operators to perform personal protection in accordance with regulations. For the front-line inspection and supervision staff at the port, a concentrated nucleic acid test will be carried out every week to ensure the personal safety and non-toxic operation of the front-line staff.
In view of the characteristics of imported frozen products at Tianjin Port and the requirements for epidemic prevention and control, Tianjin Customs will go all out to do a good job in the supervision of imported cold chain food at the port.
In accordance with the requirements of the Tianjin Joint Prevention and Control Headquarters, and in accordance with the procedures and work standards determined by the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism, we will fully support and cooperate with the Tianjin Municipal Health Commission, the Market Supervision Commission and other relevant departments to carry out prevention and control work.
Follow-up disposal of goods shall be done in strict accordance with regulations. Implement comprehensive disinfection measures for the goods of related enterprises; further strengthen the monitoring and disinfection of cold chain goods at the port, strict supervision measures, and resolutely guard the line of defense at the port.
Continuously strengthen the protection of manpower, material resources and technology application. At present, the cold chain tunnel-type omnidirectional disinfection device developed by the customs has been put into use. On the basis of strict supervision, Tianjin Customs will continuously improve the efficiency of monitoring operations and killing operations, and resolutely complete various tasks deployed by superiors.
Two batches of imported frozen food tested positive on outer packaging, but did not enter the Tianjin market
Zheng Jianjun, deputy director of the Tianjin Municipal Market Supervision Commission, stated that the Municipal Market Supervision Commission organized the Binhai New Area and Dongli District Market Bureau overnight to carry out the traceability of imported cold chain foods in accordance with the instructions and requirements of the municipal leaders and the arrangements of the municipal epidemic prevention and control headquarters. .
First of all, Zheng Jianjun introduced the traceability of the front elbow of imported German pigs that had been notified that the outer packaging was positive in Dezhou City, Shandong Province.
After investigation, the distributor of this batch of cargo unloaded the container with the batch of cargo in the cold box yard of Pacific Terminal Company for storage on October 19, 2020. The whole unloading operation was unloaded by the FCL machine without opening the container. On November 4, 2020, this batch of cargo was transported from Pacific Terminal Company to the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Hailian Cold Storage. The total number of this batch of cargo is 2020.
On November 5th, the distributor loaded all the goods into another container and shipped it to Dezhou, Shandong, but did not flow into the Tianjin market for sale.
Afterwards, Zheng Jianjun introduced the traceability of Indian imported frozen hairtails that had been notified by Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province that the outer packaging had tested positive.
After investigation, the hairtail involved was produced in India, batch number 0J08, and Xingang Customs declared for import after passing the inspection. The batch of goods totaled 2,600 pieces. On November 3, 2020, the batch of goods directly entered the Xinhuiyang Cold Storage Yard in Dongli District. The goods flowed to three areas, a total of 2,400 pieces. The Municipal Market Supervision Commission has notified the inspection results to the market supervision department of the goods inflow, and has adopted Related measures. The remaining 200 pieces are stored in Xinhuiyang cold storage and are currently in a sealed state. The local disease control department has a nucleic acid test and the result is negative. The goods did not flow into the Tianjin market for sale.
Zheng Jianjun said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, market supervision departments have regarded imported cold chain food as a high-risk category and carried out key supervision. A total of 26,634 inspectors were dispatched, 25,950 inspections of various production and operation units, including 2,156 inspections of centralized trading markets, 9464 inspections of sellers, 211 inspections of certified food production enterprises, 13,402 catering service units, and 717 cold storages. Second; Push 128628 pieces of nucleic acid detection point information to the health department as required.
At the same time, the market supervision department strengthened the construction of the traceability system of imported cold chain foods in accordance with the requirement of “no sales without traceability data”, and established the Tianjin cold chain traceability platform to realize the traceability of imported cold chain foods with information technology. Up to now, 1072 imported cold chain food production and sales units in the city have completed registration on the platform, and a total of 4,567 batches of traceability data of imported refrigerated and frozen meat and aquatic products have been uploaded.
Binhai New Area: Nucleic acid tests of all relevant personnel, no positive results
On November 8, at the 150th Tianjin New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Work Press Conference, Liang Chunzao, deputy commander of the Binhai New Area Prevention and Control Headquarters and deputy district head, introduced that on November 7, the Binhai New Area The Control Headquarters received a report from the special class of cold-chain food COVID-19 prevention and control work in Decheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, that the front elbow outer packaging of frozen pigs imported from Germany through the Dongjiang Bonded Port Area of Binhai New Area tested weakly positive for COVID-19 virus nucleic acid .

After receiving the report, Binhai New Area immediately followed the emergency deployment of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, and immediately followed up with Tianjin Customs, Dongjiang Bonded Port Area and related enterprises to track the whereabouts of containers and goods; rushed to the scene to investigate, identify the exposed persons and transfer them to Centralized isolation at isolation points, and nucleic acid sampling and testing of exposed persons and the environment.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on November 8, the Binhai New Area CDC laboratory reported a positive nucleic acid test result of a cold storage door handle in an environmental sample, and then reported a positive nucleic acid test result of a stevedore worker who was transferred from 120 to Haihe Hospital. The main leaders of the district party committee and the district government rushed to Hangu Street overnight to command and dispatch, to seal and control a community on Hangu Street where people who tested positive live, and conduct large-scale nucleic acid sampling and testing on residents of the community. At the same time, the relevant cold storage was sealed and checked for the first time, and the relevant people, vehicles and objects involved were screened.
At 7:00 on November 8, Haihe Hospital reported a confirmed case of novel coronavirus pneumonia.
Investigation of positive nucleic acid tests
This batch of positive frozen pork knuckles came from the Port of Bremerhaven, Germany. They arrived at the Pacific Wharf of Tianjin Port at 0:45 on October 19. At 11:16, the containers with the cargo were unloaded at the cold box yard of the Pacific Wharf Company. , The whole process of unloading operation is to unload the whole container by machine without opening the container and without personnel contact.
From October 19th to November 4th, the cargo was placed at Pacific Wharf. At 0:37 on November 4, the cargo was lifted from Pacific Wharf Company and transported to Tianjin in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city in Binhai New Area at 11:30. Hailian Cold Chain Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hailian Cold Storage"), unpacked 2020 cartons of the batch of goods in the cold storage for storage.
At 12:30 on November 5th, the 28.10603 tons of goods were all loaded into containers and all were transported to Dezhou, Shandong by vehicles arranged by Beijing Sanchuan Jinzhou Trading Co., Ltd.
Confirmed case status and movement track

The patient's native place is Hebei Province, and he currently lives in a community on Hangu Street and lives with 8 other colleagues in the unit.

From November 4th to November 7th before isolation, at 7:15 every day, the patient drove and carried the other 8 people in the dormitory to work. After leaving get off work at 22:00 every night, the patient drove and took the other 8 colleagues from the same dormitory back to the dormitory to rest. Daily commute to and from get off work, consistent schedule, no going out during the period.
On the way to work, the patient and his colleagues in the car bought breakfast and paid by mobile phone. Both buyers and sellers wore masks and did not stop for meals. Lunch and dinner are ordered by the unit, placed on the ticket table of the guard room, and then go to the lounge to eat after picking up the meal. All contacts in the unit are from the same dormitory.
Have not been to a community where confirmed cases or asymptomatic infections have been reported in the country within 14 days; have no travel history or residence history in overseas epidemic countries or regions; have not been in contact with communities where people with confirmed cases or asymptomatic infections have reported fever and/ Or patients with respiratory symptoms; have not been in contact with patients with fever and/or respiratory symptoms from overseas countries or regions with epidemics; there is no contact history of confirmed cases or asymptomatic infections; no cluster disease.
Investigation of close contacts of confirmed cases
It was determined through investigation that there were a total of 8 close contacts of the patient from 2 days before sampling to before isolation, all of whom were colleagues who lived in the same vehicle during the patient’s trajectory, and none of them had a history of travel in other places. After an epidemiological investigation of 8 close contacts, the 8 people are in close contact with each other, and there are no other close contacts. At present, the 8 people have been under isolation medical observation.
Measures taken and test results
At the same time, two clues of goods and personnel are taken to trace the measures.
Goods traceability clues
There were 12 people who were exposed to the positive cargo in Tianjin. Except for the announced patient, the test results of the rest have been negative. Further expand the scope of testing, and conduct centralized isolation medical observation and nucleic acid testing on 59 other relevant contacts and related personnel. The results are to be released.
Patient tracing clues
The test results of 8 close contacts were all negative; the positive cases were collected overnight
156 samples from 48 households living in Building 9 (96 households on 24 floors) were tested for nucleic acid. Except for one person who needed to be rechecked due to sampling, the results were all negative; the scope of testing was further expanded and the residential community for positive cases Nucleic acid tests were performed on 765 households with 2186 people living in 25 buildings (1514 households), and the results are to be released.

Next steps

All close contacts of the positive case, all residents in the building where they live, and the rest of the staff in the cold storage, are all transferred to the isolation point for centralized isolation medical observation (currently completed), and the remaining personnel are subject to home isolation medical observation to carry out case housing Terminal disinfection of environment and working environment. On the basis of routine testing, three days were used to conduct a full coverage nucleic acid test for the cold storage and cold chain logistics related staff in the entire region.

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**sharon sanders** · November 8, 2020, 02:09 PM

It seems to me that testing approximately 2200 people with no contact for one confirmed case is a bit of overkill. The immediate contacts have so far tested negative. Why would people who were not contacts be tested at this time? Plus, the test status can change quickly. Someone negative today can be positive tomorrow. It just seems this pattern of testing, literally millions of people in some instances, for a few confirmed cases may be for more than one reason.

For instance, one test in asymptomatic people -

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"“The data for the symptomatic group is decent,” said Jennifer Dien Bard, the director of the clinical microbiology and virology laboratory at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. “But to get less than 50 percent in the asymptomatic group? That’s worse than flipping a coin.”

Among people without symptoms, the Sofia also produced more false positives than P.C.R.-confirmed positives, mistakenly identifying seven participants as infected when they were not actually carrying the coronavirus.

When asked about the Sofia’s poorer performance in asymptomatic people, Dr. Harris said, “I think everybody expected that.”

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