Many frozen seafood shipments in the port city of Yantai have been found infected with coronavirus. The governments are taking measures to correct the situation
It has been over 6 months since the cases for Coronavirus were first reported, but researchers are still in the process of understanding the virus. While it is believed that the virus spreads mainly from person to person due to droplets or physical contact, it can also contaminate pets and objects. There are variations to the amount of time the virus can survive on a surface depending on the environment, but at least two instances show that it can last long enough to survive shipments of frozen imported goods.
Authorities in the Chinese port city Yantai recently found the novel Coronavirus on the outer packaging of imported frozen seafood, which arrived from the northeastern port city of Dailan, about 186km away. Although the Yantai government did not mention the place of origin of the shipment, they stated that the seafood came from an imported shipment that entered the country in a foreign vessel through Dalian. They were then sent to the Yantai port for three businesses in the city.
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Some of the seafood of the contaminated packaging had been processed for export while the rest was kept in storage. Even the early Coronavirus cases were linked with the wholesale seafood market in Wuhan, China. This had not been the first case of Coronavirus on food. In July, the packaging of frozen shrimp imported from Ecuador to Dalian was found with Coronavirus. Dalian has also been the site for China’s latest clusters in July.
In June, the virus was also detected in seafood, beef, and lamb vendors in Beijing’s Xinfadi wholesale food market. In light of the recent outbreaks in the food industry, the local governments have become a lot more careful in monitoring their frozen food processes. The Yantai government in light of recent discoveries has reminded imported food processing companies to establish measures to prevent Coronavirus contamination.
Workers that were in close contact with the frozen seafood shipped to Yantai were placed in quarantine and have tested negative. At the peak of the outbreak, China was reporting thousands of new infections daily but this has dramatically decreased. On Tuesday, Aug. 11, the country only reported 25 new Coronavirus cases. There have been a total of 88,958 new cases and 4,693 deaths in China as of press time.
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