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Traces of the virus were found in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday during routine inspections of the wings of frozen chickens imported from Brazil, city officials said.
According to her, the tests were carried out immediately on the people who had been in contact with the contaminated products, as well as on their relatives, and all the tests were negative.
At the time, the mayor of Uhu, eastern China’s Anhui province, announced Thursday that traces of the virus had been found in packages of shrimp stored in the restaurant’s freezer chamber imported from Ecuador.
The WHO emphasized that there is no need to panic, as no cases of coronavirus-induced respiratory illness COVID-19 have been transmitted through food.
“People are already scared and intimidated enough during the COVID pandemic,” Michael Ryan, WHO emergency manager, said at a virtual conference in Geneva.
“People should not be afraid of food or food packaging, as well as food processing or delivery,” he noted.
“There is no evidence that food or the food chain is contributing to the spread of the virus,” the official said. “Our food is safe from a COVID point of view.”
The WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove, for her part, confirmed that the UN health agency has received reports that China is looking for traces of coronavirus in food packaging.
“They analyzed several hundred thousand samples taken from the packages, but the results were very, very few, less than 10,” he said.
“We know that the virus can remain on the surface for a while,” added the expert.
“If the virus is actually present in food, and we have no examples of this virus being transmitted through food when someone eats food, it can be destroyed, like other viruses, by heat treatment of meat,” explained Mr. van Kerkhove. .
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