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Editor, Senior Moderator
Biosaf Health
. 2020 Nov 19.
doi: 10.1016/j.bsheal.2020.11.003. Online ahead of print.
Cold-chain transportation in the frozen food industry may have caused a recurrence of COVID-19 cases in destination: Successful isolation of SARS-CoV-2 virus from the imported frozen cod package surface
Peipei Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mengjie Yang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xiang Zhao[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuanyuan Guo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Liang Wang[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jing Zhang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Wenwen Lei[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Weifang Han[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fachun Jiang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], William J Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], George F Gao[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Guizhen Wu[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has spread in 220 countries/regions to wreak havoc to human beings around the world. At present, the second wave of COVID-19 has begun in many European countries. The complete control of COVID-19 is very urgent. Although China quickly brought the virus under control, there have been eight sporadic outbreaks in China since then. Both in Xinfadi of Beijing and Dalian outbreak of COVID-19, environmental swab samples related to imported cold chain food were tested nucleic acid positive for SARS-CoV-2. In this outbreak in Qingdao, we directly isolated SARS-CoV-2 from the cod outer package's surface swab samples. This is the first time worldwide, SARS-CoV-2 were isolated from the imported frozen cod outer package's surface, which showed that imported frozen food industry could import SARS-CoV-2 virus.
. 2020 Nov 19.
doi: 10.1016/j.bsheal.2020.11.003. Online ahead of print.
Cold-chain transportation in the frozen food industry may have caused a recurrence of COVID-19 cases in destination: Successful isolation of SARS-CoV-2 virus from the imported frozen cod package surface
Peipei Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mengjie Yang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xiang Zhao[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuanyuan Guo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Liang Wang[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jing Zhang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Wenwen Lei[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Weifang Han[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fachun Jiang[SUP] 4 [/SUP], William J Liu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], George F Gao[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Guizhen Wu[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33235990
- PMCID: PMC7676848
- DOI: 10.1016/j.bsheal.2020.11.003
Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has spread in 220 countries/regions to wreak havoc to human beings around the world. At present, the second wave of COVID-19 has begun in many European countries. The complete control of COVID-19 is very urgent. Although China quickly brought the virus under control, there have been eight sporadic outbreaks in China since then. Both in Xinfadi of Beijing and Dalian outbreak of COVID-19, environmental swab samples related to imported cold chain food were tested nucleic acid positive for SARS-CoV-2. In this outbreak in Qingdao, we directly isolated SARS-CoV-2 from the cod outer package's surface swab samples. This is the first time worldwide, SARS-CoV-2 were isolated from the imported frozen cod outer package's surface, which showed that imported frozen food industry could import SARS-CoV-2 virus.