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China - COVID-19 coronavirus found on imported frozen fish and packaging in Tianjin - February 3, 2021

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
A batch of frozen hairtail imported from Pakistan in Tianjin and its outer packaging test positive for nucleic acid

2021-02-03 22:03



According to CCTV News, on the evening of February 3, the reporter learned from the Tianjin Prevention and Control Headquarters that when conducting nucleic acid testing on imported frozen hairtail sold by mobile vendors at the entrance of Hujiayuan Village, Jinghai Town, Tianjin Jinghai District found frozen hairtail and outer packaging nucleic acid. The test result is positive. Disposal has been carried out in accordance with relevant epidemic prevention measures. Nucleic acid tests of relevant personnel are in progress, and all the results have been negative.


After investigation, the goods involved in the epidemic were imported frozen hairtail, originating in Pakistan. The goods involved in the epidemic entered the customs at Tianjin Port, and were then transferred to a cold storage in Jinnan District, where they were sold to the mobile vendor on January 25. The vendor used self-driving vans for sales in Jinghai District, Tianjin from January 27 to February 1.


On February 2, Tianjin Jinghai District collected 3 samples of frozen hairtail, outer packaging and external environment, and 2 samples of exposed persons. It was found that the nucleic acid test results of 2 frozen hairtail and outer packaging samples were positive, and the test results of other samples were negative; On February 3, 30 frozen hairtails, internal and external packaging and external environmental samples were collected in Tianjin Jinnan District. The nucleic acid test results of 2 exposed persons were all negative.


Up to now, 863 boxes of this batch of goods have been sold. Tianjin Jinnan District has sealed the remaining 564 boxes and tracked the sales of goods. The final disinfection of the goods and the related environment has been completed. 70 samples of this batch of frozen hairtail and other imported cold chain foods were collected again, 64 of which tested negative, and other test results are pending; 99 samples of relevant practitioners were collected, and the test results were all negative. The two exposed persons and their two close contacts have been quarantined together, and two samples of close contacts have been collected, and the test results are pending.


Tianjin Jinghai District sealed the remaining goods in the car and tracked the sales of the goods; the final disinfection of the goods, the vehicle and the salesperson’s residence environment has been completed; the remaining goods, the outer packaging, and the external environment samples of the vehicle and the residence have been collected again Twenty-six test results were all negative; the two exposed persons and the two buyers who were traced were quarantined. Two samples of the buyers were collected, and the test results were all negative.


https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/161236092615840.html
 
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