In China, controls on frozen food are being tightened in an attempt to curb the rising number of infections. The authorities suspect that it is possible to contract the virus through food packaging.
Cities such as Zhengzhou and Haikou will tighten inspections of imported frozen foods to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. Frozen pork and beef from the United Kingdom, Brazil and Canada was seized at a restaurant in Nantong city because the owner was unable to provide disinfection certificates.
In China, since the start of the pandemic, it has been believed that the virus can survive on frozen food and packaging, linking some of the infections to imported products. Health institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Health Service (CDC) say such a transmission is unlikely.
Nevertheless, China is sticking to the drastic measures. Earlier this year, massive testing and disinfection of frozen foods caused congestion at ports and lengthy customs delays. Some supermarkets have separate coolers for imported goods.
90 new infections were reported across China yesterday. “For China, that is a high number, because they want to get to zero cases of Covid-19. They have a zero-tolerance policy, just like Australia and New Zealand,” correspondent Garrie van Pinxteren said in the newspaper yesterday. NOS Radio 1 News. “They should actually remain that strict, because there is no herd immunity and the Chinese corona vaccines protect to a lesser extent against the delta variant of the virus. If those strict rules were released now, the virus would spread like a fire throughout China. “
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